Method of identifying and/or isolating stem cells and prognosing responsiveness to leukemia treatment

ABSTRACT

The present invention includes methods of identifying and/or isolating stem cells based on expression of BCRP. The present invention also describes methods of obtaining and/or using cell populations enriched for stem cells. In addition, methods are provided for diagnosing and/or prognosing leukemia, particularly human acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), through assaying for BCRP expression in leukemic cells.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] The present Application is a Continuation-In-Part of co-pending U.S. Ser. No. 09/584,586 filed May 31, 2000 which is a Continuation-In-Part of co-pending International Application PCT/US99/11825 filed May 27, 1999, which claims the priority of provisional U.S. Ser. No. 60/086,988 filed May 28, 1998, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties. Applicants claim the benefits of these Applications under 35 U.S.C. § § 120 and 119(e).

RESEARCH SUPPORT

[0002] The research leading to the present invention was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health Grant No: PO HL 53749-04 and the Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA21765. The government may have certain rights in the present invention. Support for this invention was also provided by the AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES and the ASSISI FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS INC.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0003] The present invention provides a method of identifying and/or isolating stem cells. The present invention also provides methods of using cell populations enriched for stem cells. In addition, the present invention provides methods for diagnosing and/or prognosing human acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0004] All of the cells and cell types of an individual adult mammal are derived from a single cell, the zygote. However, as cells mature and differentiate they lose their ability to be converted into a different cell type. Thus, most adult cells are fully differentiated and normally cannot be converted into another cell type. One particular exception is the adult stem cell. Adult stem cells retain the ability to differentiate into other cell types, though this differentiation is generally limited to forming cells of a single tissue type. For example, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are capable of differentiating into any cell type of the blood and immune system, whereas brain stem cells can differentiate into the different cell types of the brain. In recent years, therapies for treating degenerative diseases and/or cancer (such as leukemia) have been designed which employ stem cells. However, heretofore, isolating stem cells from the human donors has proved to be extremely difficult since stem cells are relatively rare.

[0005] Hematopoietic stem cells are functionally defined based on their capacity for self-renewal divisions, which leads to the continuous generation of new HSCs over the lifetime of an animal, and by their potential for pluripotent hematopoietic differentiation. There are three possible general outcomes for the resulting daughter cells when a hematopoietic stem cell divides: (i) differentiation, (ii) self-renewal, or (iii) apoptosis. Despite the extensive study of HSCs, due to its relevance to bone marrow transplantation, gene therapy, and basic hematopoiesis, the mechanisms controlling these three tightly regulated outcomes are poorly understood.

[0006] Purification strategies for HSCs have been developed for both mouse [Spangrude et al., Science 241:58-62 (1988):(published erratum appears in Science 244(4908):1030 (1989)); Uchida et al., J.Exp.Med. 175:175-184 (1992)] and humans HSCs [Zanjani et al., J. Clin.Invest. 93:1051-1055 (1994), see comments; Larochelle et al., Nat.Med. 2:1329-1337 (1996); Civin et al., Blood 88:4102-4109 (1996)]. Most of these strategies use antibodies directed against various cell surface antigens and multiparameter cell sorting to isolate phenotypically defined cell populations. This approach has allowed isolation of murine stem cell populations of sufficiently high purity to allow reconstitution of irradiated recipients with less than 10 cells [Morrison et al., Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 92:10302-10306 (1995); Osawa et al., Science 273:242-245 (1996)], while considerably greater numbers of sorted human cells have been required to reconstitute xenogeneic recipients [Larochelle et al., Nat.Med. 2:1329-1337 (1996); Zanjani et al., Exp.Hematol. 26:353-360 (1998), see comments.

[0007] The human MDR1 gene and its murine homologs were originally identified based on the ability of their expressed products, collectively referred to as P-glycoproteins (P-gps), to extrude a wide variety of cytotoxic drugs from the cell interior [Gros et al., Cell, 47:371-380 (1986) and Chen et al., Cell, 47:381-389 (1986)]. It is now known that the MDR1 gene belongs to a superfamily of transport proteins that contain a conserved ATP-binding cassette (ABC) which is necessary for pump function [Allikmets et al., Hum. Mol. Genet. 5:1649-1655 (1996)]. Numerous studies have clearly shown that P-gp expression plays an important role in the resistance of human tumor cells to cancer chemotherapy [Pastan and Gottesman, Annu. Rev. Med., 42:277-286 (1991)]. Considering that P-gps are also expressed in a wide variety of normal tissues, more recent studies have examined the normal physiologic functions of MDR1-like genes. Murine gene disruption experiments have demonstrated that expression of various P-gps is necessary for biliary excretion [Smit et al., Cell, 75:451-462 (1993)], maintenance of the blood-brain barrier [Schinkel et al., Cell, 77:491-502 (1994)], and elimination of drugs [Schinkel et al., Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA, 94:4028-4033 (1997)]. P-gps can also mediate more general cellular functions including the translocation of lipids across the cell membrane [van Helvoort et al., Cell, 87:507-517 (1996)] and modulation of specific apoptosis pathways [Johnstone et al., Blood, 93:1075-1085 (1999) and Smyth et al., Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA, 95:7024-7029 (1998)].

[0008] P-gp is expressed in a variety of hematopoietic cell types [Drach et al., Blood, 80:2729-2734 (1992)], including human CD34⁺stem cells [Chaudhary and Roninson, Cell, 66:85-94 (1991)] and murine c-kit⁺ stem cells [Sorrentino et al., Blood, 86:491-501 (1995)]. Several lines of evidence suggest that P-gp expression is functionally conserved in hematopoietic stem cells.

[0009] Another ATP transport protein that contains a conserved ATP-binding cassette is the gene product of the Bcrp1/Mxr/Abcp/ABCG2 gene (referred to herein as BCRP when obtained from any mammalian source, but as mBCRP and huBCRP when the specific mouse or human gene or gene product(s) are being particularly referenced). The huBCRP cDNA was originally cloned from several different human tumor cell lines that were resistant to multiple drugs including doxorubicin, topotecan, and mitoxantrone [Doyle et al., Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 95:15665-15670 (1998):(published erratum appears in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 96(5):2569 (1999)); Maliepaard et al., Cancer Res. 59:4559-4563 (1999); Miyake et al., Cancer Res. 59:8-13 (1999)]. A highly related mouse homologue (mBcrp1) was cloned from fibroblasts selected for multidrug resistance [Allen et al., Cancer Res. 59:4237-4241 (1999)]. In contrast to the structure of the MDR1 gene, which consists of two duplicated halves, the predicted structure of BCRP is that of a “half transporter”, with a single ATP binding cassette and transmembrane region. The expression pattern of human BCRP (huBCRP) is highly restricted in normal human tissues, with the highest levels of mRNA detected in the placenta, and much lower levels detected in adult organs [Doyle et al., Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 95:15665-15670 (1998):(published erratum appears in Proc.Natl.Acad.SciU S A. 96(5):2569 (1999)); Allikmets et al., CancerRes. 58:5337-5339 (1998)].

[0010] Hematopoietic stem cells can be identified based on their ability to efflux fluorescent dyes that are substrates for P-gp, such as Rhodamine (Rho) 123 [Spangrude and Johnson, Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. SA, 87:7433-7437 (1990); Fleming et al., J. Cell Biol., 122:897-902 (1993); Orlic et al., Blood, 82:762-770 (1993); and Zijlmans et al., Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA, 92:8901-8905 (1995)] and Hoechst 33342 [McAlister et al., Blood, 75:1240-1246 (1990); Wolf et al., Exp. Hematol., 21:614-622 (1993); and Leemhuis et al., Exp. Hematol., 24:1215-1224 (1996)]. One particular approach for purifying stem cells is based on Hoechst dye-staining of bone marrow cells to identify a minor fraction of side population (SP) cells that are highly enriched for repopulating activity [Goodell et al., J. Exp. Med., 183:1797-1806 (1996)]. This SP phenotype identifies a primitive subset of stem cells present in multiple mammalian species [Goodell et al., Nat. Med., 3:1337-1345 (1997)], and based on verapamil inhibition studies, may be due to expression of P-gp or another ABC transporter [Goodell et al., J. Exp. Med., 183:1797-1806 (1996)].

[0011] Despite a recent report demonstrating that sorting for expression of the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor can enrich human stem cells to near purity [Ziegler et al., Science 285:1553-1558 (1999)], there still remains a general need for better and more specific markers of human HSCs. In addition, there is a great need for new methodologies of isolating stem cells.

[0012] The citation of any reference herein should not be deemed as an admission that such reference is available as prior art to the instant invention.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0013] The present invention provides methods of identifying and/or purifying stem cells by detecting and/or selecting for cells that express a specific transmembrane efflux pump. More particularly the present invention discloses that BCRP expression is a more specific marker for stem cells than all currently available markers. Such stem cells include hematopoietic stem cells, and side population (SP) stem cells from other organs. The present invention therefore provides methods for isolating primitive stem cells based on the detection of BCRP expression, which as disclosed herein, is a functional determinant for stem cells from a variety of tissues.

[0014] The present invention further provides methods of identifying cells that express BCRP. One such embodiment comprises obtaining a cell sample which contains (or is suspected to contain) stem cells and detecting the expression of BCRP by a cell in the cell sample. A cell is identified as a stem cell if BCRP is expressed by the cell.

[0015] The detection of the expression of BCRP can be performed via its specific pumping activity, i.e., it can remove Hoechst 33342 dye but not Rhodamine 123 dye (see Example 1 below). Preferably detection of the expression of BCRP is performed with an anti-BCRP antibody which binds to BCRP (more preferably the extracellular portion of BCRP). Stem cells can then be identified due to their binding to the anti-BCRP antibody. In one such embodiment the antibody is a polyclonal antibody. In another embodiment the antibody is a monoclonal antibody. Alternatively, the detection of the expression of BCRP is performed via PCR employing a PCR probe derived for a nucleic acid sequence that expresses BCRP (see Example 1 below).

[0016] In an alternative embodiment, the present invention provides a method for identifying a stem cell that further comprises detecting the expression of one or more additional stem cell markers, i.e., a protein that is expressed by stem cells. A cell that expresses BCRP and expresses one or more of such stem cell markers is then confirmed as a stem cell. In one such embodiment the stem cell marker is EM10. In another embodiment the stem cell marker is CD34. In a preferred embodiment of this type the stem cell is also CD38⁻ (i.e., does not express CD38). In still another embodiment the stem cell marker is Thy-1. In yet another embodiment the stem cell marker is P-gp. In still another embodiment the stem cell marker is c-kit. In yet another embodiment the stem cell marker is Ac133.

[0017] The present invention also provides methods of further enriching the stem cell population in a mixture of cells that have previously been enriched by selecting for an alternative stem cell marker. In a particular embodiment of this type, the cells have been previously selected for the expression of the CD34 marker. Such an enriched stem cell population can then be further enriched by selecting for cells that also express BCRP. Any of the methods taught by the present invention for identifying/selecting cells that express BCRP can be used.

[0018] Alternatively, or in conjunction with detecting the expression of BCRP, the methods for identifying a stem cell of the present invention can further comprise detecting the expression of one or more lineage specific markers. A cell that expresses BCRP (and preferably one or more additional stem cell markers) but does not express the lineage specific marker(s) is then identified as a stem cell.

[0019] In a particular embodiment the stem cell is a hematopoietic stem cell. In one such embodiment the lineage specific marker whose absence is used to confirm stem cell identification is CD14. In another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD15. In yet another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD38. In still another embodiment the lineage specific marker is HLA-DR. In yet another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD71. In still another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD33. In yet another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD2. In still another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD16. In yet another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD19. In still another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD20. In yet another embodiment the lineage specific marker is glycophorin A. In still another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD3. In yet another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD4. In still another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD8. In yet another embodiment the lineage specific marker is CD56.

[0020] The present invention therefore also provides methods of isolating stem cells. One such embodiment comprises a method of isolating a cell that expresses BCRP that comprises obtaining a cell sample which contains (or is suspected to contain) a cell that expresses BCRP and detecting the expression of BCRP by a cell in the cell sample. After being detected the cell that expresses BCRP is isolated. As indicated above, the absence and/or presence of lineage specific markers and stem cell markers respectively, can also be employed in the detection of the stem cells.

[0021] Cell samples can be obtained from any animal, but preferably a mammal and more preferably a human. Preferably, these samples already have a cell population that has been previously enriched in stem cells.

[0022] One particular embodiment comprises obtaining a cell sample which contains (or is suspected to contain) stem cells and contacting them with an antibody that binds to BCRP (preferably an extracellular portion BCRP). Cells that bind to the antibody are then isolated. These isolated cells are identified as isolated stem cells due to their binding to the anti-BCRP antibody. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention the isolation of the stem cells is performed by flow cytometry. In one particular embodiment, the antibody has a fluorescent label and the isolation of the stem cells is performed by fluorescent-activated cell sorting (FACS).

[0023] In another embodiment, the anti-BCRP antibody is placed on a solid support. The solid support can then be contacted/incubated with a sample of cells, such that the cells can associate with the solid support by binding to the anti-BCRP antibody. The solid support is then washed to remove cells that bind non-specifically. The remaining cells are eluted from the solid support (by an excess of free antibody, for example). Based on their ability to bind anti-BCRP antibody with specificity, the eluted cells are identified as isolated stem cells.

[0024] In a particular embodiment, the solid support is an immunomagnetic bead (e.g., MILTENYI MINIMACS™, DYNABEADS™). The anti-BCRP antibody is placed on the immunomagnetic beads which are then contacted/incubated with a sample of cells, as indicated above, such that the cells can associate with the beads by binding to the anti-BCRP antibody. Preferably after an appropriate incubation period, the immunomagnetic beads can then be separated from the sample of cells with a magnet. The immunomagnetic beads are then washed to remove cells that bind non-specifically. The remaining cells are eluted from the immunomagnetic beads as indicated above. Again, based on their ability to bind anti-BCRP antibody, the isolated cells are identified as stem cells.

[0025] In one embodiment the BCRP is a huBCRP gene product which is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:9 and has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 10. In another embodiment the BCRP is a huBCRP gene product which is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:26 and has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:27. In yet another embodiment the BCRP is a murine BCRP (mBCRP) which is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 13 and has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 14. In still another embodiment the BCRP is a mBCRP which is encoded by a nucleotide sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 11 and has an amino acid sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 12.

[0026] Furthermore, any step in any method for isolating and/or identifying stem cells can be repeated to enhance the isolation/identification process. In addition, individual methods can also be combined in order to enhance the isolation/identification processes.

[0027] The purified/isolated stem cells obtained from the methodology of the present invention are also part of the present invention. In addition, cell populations enriched for stem cells obtained by a method of the present invention are also provided. One such enriched population is obtained from a mixed population of cells that comprises both stem cells and cells that are not stem cells. The cells of the mixed population of cells are then separated into two individual groups of cells based on whether or not they express BCRP. The group of cells selected for expressing BCRP are a cell population enriched for stem cells. As indicated above, the selection process can be repeated one or more times to further enrich the population of cells for stem cells.

[0028] The identification and isolation of stem cells via the methods of the present invention extend beyond hematopoietic stem cells and comprises all stem cells, including but not limited to muscle stem cells, liver stem cells, gastrointestinal stem cells, brain stem cells, and embryonic stem cells. The present invention also provides methods of using these isolated stem cells including the use of muscle stem cells in the treatment of diseases such as muscular dystrophy, degenerative liver disorder, myocardial infarction, Parkinson's disease, degenerative disorders of the brain, and for tissue regeneration/replacement. In addition, the hematopoietic stem cells can be used in bone marrow transplants (e.g., for treatment of leukemia) as well as for ex vivo gene therapy for treatment of blood diseases such as sickle cell anemia and thalassemia.

[0029] The present invention also provides the antibodies and portions thereof that recognize an extracellular portion of a BCRP in its natural conformation. In a preferred embodiment an antibody of the present invention recognizes BCRP on the surface of a viable stem cell. In a particular embodiment the antibody is a polyclonal antibody. In another embodiment the antibody is a monoclonal antibody. In another embodiment the antibody is a chimeric antibody. In a preferred embodiment of this type the chimeric antibody is a humanized antibody.

[0030] The present invention also provides a method of prognosing human leukemia, particularly acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), through determination of BCRP expression in leukemic cells, e.g., blast cells from individuals having or suspected of having AML. The effectiveness of chemotherapeutic agents which can be effluxed from the cell by BCRP is predictably decreased by the presence of BCRP on leukemic cells. Determination of the presence and level of BCRP expression in the leukemic cells of an individual can therefore help the medical practitioner develop a therapeutic regimen which takes into account the predicted efficacy of such agents and allows proper consideration of alternative therapies or agents which are not susceptible to the counter-effects of BCRP where BCRP expression is present.

[0031] Accordingly, it is a principal object of the present invention to provide a method of obtaining purified stem cells.

[0032] It is a further object of the present invention to provide the purified stem cells.

[0033] It is a further object of the present invention to provide methods of using the purified stem cells in the treatment of diseases in which one or more specific cell types are being adversely depleted and/or become dysfunctional.

[0034] It is a further object of the present invention to provide methods of using the purified stem cells for gene therapy.

[0035] It is a further object of the present invention to provide methods of identifying stem cells in vitro, in situ, and in vivo among mixed populations of cells and/or tissues.

[0036] It is a further object of the present invention to use BCRP as a marker for prognosing the progression of AML.

[0037] These and other aspects of the present invention will be better appreciated by reference to the following drawings and Detailed Description.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

[0038]FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of a method of producing anti-BCRP monoclonal antibodies that can be used to isolate living stem cells by cell sorting.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0039] The present invention provides the use of a specific ATP transporter, BCRP to identify and/or isolate a mammalian stem cell. Indeed, as shown herein, the BCRP gene is expressed at relatively high levels both in primitive CD34-murine HSCs and in SP cells from the bone marrow. In contrast, the expression of other known ABC transporters in the highly enriched CD34-stem cell population is low to absent. A retroviral vector expressing the huBCRP cDNA has been constructed as described below to study the functional properties of huBCRP. Fibroblasts expressing this vector gain the capacity to efflux Hoechst dye, a prerequisite property for establishment of the SP phenotype. Furthermore, when primary bone marrow cells are transduced with the BCRP vector, there is a large expansion of SP cells over time in culture. SP cells from the muscle also express BCRP at high levels. Indeed, BCRP mRNA expression is highly restricted in normal tissues. Furthermore, as disclosed herein, BCRP expression is relatively restricted to the hematopoietic stem cell compartment in mice. In accordance with these data BCRP expression is contemplated to be a universal marker for stem cells from various organs, and may well be the critical molecule for conferring the dye efflux phenotype to stem cells. Therefore, the present invention provides a method of identifying stem cells by their expression of BCRP. Such identification can then be used to isolate the stem cells.

[0040] Given the capacity of BCRP to confer resistance to anthracyline drugs [Miyake et al., Cancer Res. 59:8-13 (1999)], BCRP expression may directly confer resistance to AML induction chemotherapy. Indeed, BCRP expression in AML blasts appears to be associated with a drug resistant phenotype and thereby predict a poor prognosis. Therefore, the present invention also provides a method of prognostigating pediatric patients with AML, e.g., by examining/monitoring blast cells from such pediatric patients.

[0041] As demonstrated in the Examples below, stem cells from the bone marrow, skeletal muscle, and other tissues can be identified by the “side population” (SP) phenotype. While heretofore it had been assumed that the expression of ABC transporters is responsible for this phenotype, the specific molecules involved had not been defined. Herein, it is demonstrated that expression of the Bcrp1 (mBCRP)/ABCG2 (huBCRP) gene is a conserved feature of stem cells from diverse tissue sources. Indeed, mBCRP mRNA is expressed at high levels in primitive murine hematopoietic stem cells, and is sharply downregulated with stem cell differentiation. Enforced expression of the huBCRP cDNA directly conferred the SP phenotype to bone marrow cells, and causes a block in differentiation using both in vitro and transplantation-based assays. These results identify BCRP gene expression as a novel stem cell marker, and that its observed expression reflects a functional role in inhibiting stem cell differentiation. Therefore, the present invention provides methods of identifying stem cells through assays that can detect the expression of the BCRP.

[0042] Thus the studies disclosed herein demonstrate that expression of the BCRP transporter is highly conserved in primitive stem cells from a variety of sources. Expression was noted in SP cells from murine bone marrow, skeletal muscle, cultured ES cells, and in Rhesus monkey bone marrow. Within the lineage negative compartment of murine bone marrow cells, BCRP expression was relatively restricted to primitive CD34-stem cells, and expression was sharply downregulated with differentiation. The link between BCRP expression and SP cells was further strengthened by the observation that enforced expression in bone marrow cells caused a significant expansion of cells bearing the SP phenotype, both in vitro and in vivo. Altogether, these findings support the idea that BCRP expression is a widely conserved and specific marker for stem cells, and indicate that this transporter plays a role in stem cell function and/or maintenance of stem cell phenotype. Cell sorting for BCRP expression using appropriate antibodies provides a new strategy for stem cell purification applicable to cells from different organ sources. BCRP expression is further contemplated as a marker for the recently described trans-differentiating stem cells found in murine bone marrow [Lagasse, E. et al., Nat. Med. 6:1229-1234 (2000)] and skeletal muscle [Jackson, K. A et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. A 96:14482-14486 (1999); Gussoni, E. et al., Nature 401: 390-394 (1999)].

[0043] Therefore, if appearing herein, the following terms shall have the definitions set out below.

[0044] A “hematopoietic stem cell” is a pluripotent cell that is able to either replicate itself with self-renewal divisions or to differentiate along a number of pathways and thereby generate erythrocytes, granulocytes, monocytes, mast cells, lymphocytes, and megakaryocytes. These stem cells occur with a frequency of about 1 stem cell per 104 bone marrow cells.

[0045] A “heterologous gene” as used herein is a gene that is introduced into a stem cell (e.g., a hematopoietic stem cell) through a molecular biological manipulation. As defined herein, this molecular biological manipulation is made such that the heterologous gene is inserted into the stem cell. The heterologous gene need not be expressed in the stem cell as long as it is expressed in the progeny of the stem cell. The coding sequence of the heterologous gene is operatively linked to an expression control sequence. Generally a heterologous gene is first placed into a vector. The heterologous gene is not necessarily naturally contained by the vector, though a heterologous gene can encode a protein that is native to the stem cell. For example, the heterologous gene can encode a functional protein and be used in ex vivo gene therapy to replace the corresponding defective gene in a stem cell, e.g., an hematopoietic stem cell. The heterologous gene will usually be flanked by DNA that does not flank the genomic DNA in the genome of the source organism. Alternatively, the heterologous gene may not be naturally found in the stem cell, such as the gene for human MDR1 introduced into a murine hematopoietic stem cell.

[0046] A cell has been “transduced” by a heterologous gene such as the MDR1 gene (i.e., a nucleic acid encoding MDR1), when the gene has been introduced inside the cell and the coding sequence of the gene is operatively linked to an expression control sequence. The transducing gene is carried by a vector and the gene may or may not be integrated (covalently linked) into chromosomal DNA making up the genome of the cell. A stably transduced cell is one in which the transducing gene has become integrated into a chromosome so that it is inherited by daughter cells through chromosome replication. This stability is demonstrated by the ability of the cell to establish cell lines or clones comprised of a population of daughter cells containing the transducing gene. A “clone” is a population of cells derived from a single cell or common ancestor by mitosis. A “cell line” is a clone of a primary cell that is capable of stable growth in vitro for many generations.

[0047] As used herein a “gene-modified hematopoietic stem cell” is a hematopoietic stem cell that has been transduced by a heterologous gene.

[0048] As used herein the “expansion” of an hematopoietic stem cell indicates that there is an increase in the absolute number of hematopoietic stem cells, i.e., during the culturing of the cells. Analogously, an hematopoietic cell that has undergone such expansion has been “expanded”.

[0049] As used herein “engrafting” a stem cell, preferably an expanded hematopoietic stem cell, means placing the stem cell into an animal, e.g., by injection, wherein the stem cell persists in vivo. This can be readily measured by the ability of the hematopoietic stem cell, for example, to contribute to the ongoing blood formation.

[0050] As used herein an “ABC transporter” is used in the conventional sense and is used to describe a protein that is a transport ATPase. ABC transporters are members of a large family of transport proteins that are ATP-dependent. The name is derived from a highly conserved ATP-binding cassette contained by all of the members. [See, Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 3rd edition, Garland Publishing Inc. (New York) Pages 519-522 (1994)]. MDR1 and BCRP are two transmembrane efflux pumps that are part of the family of ABC transporters.

[0051] The Breast Cancer Resistance Protein is an ATP transporter protein that contains a conserved ATP-binding cassette which has been isolated from a number of different cell lines and mammalian tissues. Names in the literature of genes encoding this protein include Bcrp1, Mxr, Abcp and ABCG2 gene. Whereas, the murine gene is generally termed as the Bcrp1 gene and the corresponding human gene has been termed the ABCG2 gene, as used herein, “BCRP” is meant to include all of such ATP transport proteins obtained from any mammalian source. The murine protein is also referred to herein as mBCRP, whereas the human protein is termed herein, “huBCRP” when the specific mouse or human gene or gene product(s) are being particularly referenced. One huBCRP gene product which is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:9 and has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 10, whereas another variant is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:26 and has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:27. One mBCRP is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 13 and has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 14 and another mBCRP is encoded by a nucleotide sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 11 and has an amino acid sequence comprising SEQ ID NO:12.

[0052] A “replicon” is any genetic element (e.g., plasmid, chromosome, virus) that functions as an autonomous unit of DNA replication in vivo; i.e., capable of replication under its own control.

[0053] A “vector” is a replicon, such as plasmid, phage or cosmid, to which another DNA segment may be attached so as to bring about the replication of the attached segment. The term “vector” can also refer to a recombinant virus or defective virus containing a replicon to which another DNA segment may be attached.

[0054] A “DNA molecule” refers to the polymeric form of deoxyribonucleotides (adenine, guanine, thymine, or cytosine) in its either single stranded form, or a double-stranded helix. This term refers only to the primary and secondary structure of the molecule, and does not limit it to any particular tertiary forms. Thus, this term includes double-stranded DNA found, inter alia, in linear DNA molecules (e.g., restriction fragments), viruses, plasmids, and chromosomes. In discussing the structure of particular double-stranded DNA molecules, sequences may be described herein according to the normal convention of giving only the sequence in the 5′ to 3′ direction along the nontranscribed strand of DNA (i.e., the strand having a sequence homologous to the mRNA).

[0055] A “coding sequence” is a nucleic acid sequence which can be reverse transcribed (i.e., when part of a retroviral vector) and/or transcribed and then translated into a polypeptide in vitro and/or in vivo when placed under the control of appropriate regulatory sequences. The boundaries of the coding sequence are determined by a start codon at the 5′ (amino) terminus and a translation stop codon at the 3′ (carboxyl) terminus. A coding sequence can include, but is not limited to, prokaryotic sequences, cDNA from eukaryotic mRNA, genomic DNA sequences from eukaryotic (e.g., mammalian) DNA, and even synthetic DNA sequences. A polyadenylation signal and transcription termination sequence will usually be located 3′ to the coding sequence.

[0056] A nucleic acid sequence is “operatively linked” to an expression control sequence when the expression control sequence controls and regulates the transcription and/or translation of that nucleic acid sequence. The term “operatively linked” includes having an appropriate start signal (e.g., ATG) in front of the nucleic acid sequence to be expressed and maintaining the correct reading frame to permit expression of the nucleic acid sequence under the control of the expression control sequence and production of the desired product encoded by the nucleic acid sequence. If a gene that one desires to insert into a recombinant DNA molecule does not contain an appropriate start signal for example, such a start signal can be inserted in front of the gene.

[0057] Transcriptional and translational control sequences are DNA regulatory sequences, such as promoters, enhancers, polyadenylation signals, terminators, and the like, that provide for the expression of a coding sequence in a host cell.

[0058] A “promoter sequence” is a DNA regulatory region capable of binding RNA polymerase in a cell and initiating transcription of a downstream (3′ direction) coding sequence. For purposes of defining the present invention, the promoter sequence is bounded at its 3′ terminus by the transcription initiation site and extends upstream (5′ direction) to include the minimum number of bases or elements necessary to initiate transcription at levels detectable above background. Within the promoter sequence will be found a transcription initiation site (conveniently defined for example, by mapping with nuclease S1), as well as protein binding domains (consensus sequences) responsible for the binding of RNA polymerase. Eukaryotic promoters will often, but not always, contain “TATA” boxes and “CAT” boxes.

[0059] A coding sequence is “under the control” of transcriptional and translational control sequences in a cell when RNA polymerase transcribes the coding sequence into mRNA, which is then translated into the protein encoded by the coding sequence.

[0060] Any of a wide variety of expression control sequences—sequences that control the expression of a DNA sequence operatively linked to it—may be used in these vectors to express the DNA sequences of this invention. Such useful expression control sequences include, for example, the early or late promoters of SV40, CMV, vaccinia, polyoma, adenovirus, herpes virus and other sequences known to control the expression of genes of mammalian cells, and various combinations thereof.

[0061] In selecting an expression control sequence, a variety of factors will normally be considered. These include, for example, the relative strength of the system, its controllability, and its compatibility with the particular DNA sequence or gene to be expressed, particularly as regards potential secondary structures. Considering these and other factors a person skilled in the art will be able to construct a variety of vector/expression control sequence combinations that will express the heterologous genes used in the present invention.

[0062] The phrase “pharmaceutically acceptable” refers to molecular entities and compositions that are physiologically tolerable and do not typically produce an allergic or similar untoward reaction, such as gastric upset, dizziness and the like, when administered to a human. Preferably, as used herein, the term “pharmaceutically acceptable” means approved by a regulatory agency of the Federal or a state government or listed in the U.S. Pharmacopeia or other generally recognized pharmacopeia for use in animals, and more particularly in humans. The term “carrier” refers to a diluent, adjuvant, excipient, or vehicle with which the compound is administered. Such pharmaceutical carriers can be sterile liquids, such as water and oils, including those of petroleum, animal, vegetable or synthetic origin, such as peanut oil, soybean oil, mineral oil, sesame oil and the like. Water or aqueous solution saline solutions and aqueous dextrose and glycerol solutions are preferably employed as carriers, particularly for injectable solutions.

[0063] The phrase “therapeutically effective amount” is used herein to mean an amount sufficient to reduce by at least about 15 percent, preferably by at least 50 percent, more preferably by at least 90 percent, and most preferably prevent and/or treat, a clinically significant deficit in the activity, function and response of the host. Alternatively, a therapeutically effective amount is sufficient to cause an improvement in a clinically significant condition in the host.

Nucleic Acid Probes

[0064] A nucleic acid molecule is “hybridizable” to another nucleic acid molecule, such as a cDNA, genomic DNA, or RNA, when a single stranded form of the nucleic acid molecule can anneal to the other nucleic acid molecule under the appropriate conditions of temperature and solution ionic strength [see Sambrook, Fritsch & Maniatis, Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, Second Edition (1989) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. (herein “Sambrook et al., 1989” and Sambrook and Russell, Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, Third Edition (2001) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.]. The conditions of temperature and ionic strength determine the “stringency” of the hybridization. Specific hybridization conditions, corresponding to a T_(m) of 55□, can be used, e.g., 5× SSC, 0.1% SDS, 0.25% milk, and no formamide; or 30% formamide, 5× SSC, 0.5% SDS. Moderate stringency hybridization conditions correspond to a higher T_(m), e.g., 40% formamide, with 5× or 6× SSC. High stringency hybridization conditions correspond to the highest T_(m), e.g., 50% formamide, 5× or 6× SSC. These conditions can be used for both annealing and wash steps. Hybridization requires that the two nucleic acids contain complementary sequences, although depending on the stringency of the hybridization, mismatches between bases are possible. The appropriate stringency for hybridizing nucleic acids depends on the length of the nucleic acids and the degree of complementation, variables well known in the art. The greater the degree of similarity or homology between two nucleotide sequences, the greater the value of T_(m) for hybrids of nucleic acids having those sequences. The relative stability (corresponding to higher T_(m)) of nucleic acid hybridizations decreases in the following order: RNA:RNA, DNA:RNA, DNA:DNA. For hybrids of greater than 100 nucleotides in length, equations for calculating T_(m) have been derived [see Sambrook et al., supra, 9.50-10.51]. For hybridization with shorter nucleic acids, i.e., oligonucleotides, the position of mismatches becomes more important, and the length of the oligonucleotide determines its specificity [see Sambrook et al., supra, 11.7-11.8]. Preferably a minimum length for a hybridizable nucleic acid (probe and/or primer) is at least about 12 nucleotides; preferably at least about 18 nucleotides; and more preferably the length is at least about 27 nucleotides; and most preferably at least about 36 nucleotides. Particular primers for BCRP, and mdr1a, mdr1b, and mdr2 are provided in Example 1 below.

[0065] Such nucleotide probes and primers can be labeled or used to label complementary DNA (where appropriate) by any number of ways well known in the art including using a radioactive label, such as ³H, ¹⁴C, ³²P, or ³⁵S, a fluorescent label, a boron label [U.S. Pat. No. 5,595,878, Issued Jan. 21, 1997 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,876,938, Issued Mar. 2, 1999 which are incorporated by reference in their entireties], and enzymatic tags such as urease, alkaline phosphatase or peroxidase. In the case of enzyme tags, calorimetric indicator substrates are known which can be employed to provide a means visible to the human eye or spectrophotometrically, to identify specific hybridization with complementary nucleic acid-containing samples.

Antibodies to the ABC Transporters of the Present Invention

[0066] According to the present invention, ABC transporters as produced by a recombinant source, or through chemical synthesis, or an ABC transporter isolated from a natural source; and derivatives or analogs thereof, including fusion proteins, may be used as an immunogen to generate antibodies that recognize an ABC transporter such as BCRP. Such antibodies include but are not limited to polyclonal, monoclonal, chimeric including humanized chimeric, single chain, Fab fragments, and a Fab expression library.

[0067] In a particular embodiment an antibody is raised to an external epitope of BCRP. In a particular embodiment the epitope is derived from the extracellular portion of BCRP. Such an antibody can be used to sort living cells on a flow cytometer. These antibodies can be used, for example, to sort hematopoietic cells based on BCRP (bcrp) expression. Such antibodies also may be used to detect BCRP as a marker for repopulating activity.

[0068] The anti-BCRP antibodies of the invention may be cross reactive, that is, they may recognize a BCRP derived from a different source, e.g., an anti-human BCRP antibody may recognize both human and mouse BCRP. Polyclonal antibodies have greater likelihood of cross reactivity. Alternatively, an antibody of the invention may be specific for a single form of a BCRP, such as the huBCRP having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:10.

[0069] Various procedures known in the art may be used for the production of polyclonal antibodies to BCRP, for example, or derivative or analog thereof. For the production of antibody, various host animals can be immunized by injection with the BCRP, or a derivative (e.g., or fusion protein) thereof, including but not limited to rabbits, mice, rats, sheep, goats, etc. In one embodiment, the BCRP can be conjugated to an immunogenic carrier, e.g., bovine serum albumin (BSA) or keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH). Various adjuvants may be used to increase the immunological response, depending on the host species, including but not limited to Freund's (complete and incomplete), mineral gels such as aluminum hydroxide, surface active substances such as lysolecithin, pluronic polyols, polyanions, peptides, oil emulsions, keyhole limpet hemocyanins, dinitrophenol, and potentially useful human adjuvants such as BCG (bacille Calmette-Guerin) and Corynebacterium parvum.

[0070] For preparation of monoclonal antibodies directed toward the BCRP, or analog, or derivative thereof, any technique that provides for the production of antibody molecules by continuous cell lines in culture may be used. These include but are not limited to the hybridoma technique originally developed by Kohler and Milstein [Nature, 256:495-497 (1975)], as well as the trioma technique, the human B-cell hybridoma technique [Kozbor et al., Immunology Today, 4:72 (1983); Cote et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 80:2026-2030 (1983)], and the EBV-hybridoma technique to produce human monoclonal antibodies [Cole et al., in Monoclonal Antibodies and Cancer Therapy, Alan R. Liss, Inc., pp. 77-96 (1985)]. In an additional embodiment of the invention, monoclonal antibodies can be produced in germ-free animals utilizing recent technology [PCT/US90/02545]. In fact, according to the invention, techniques developed for the production of “chimeric antibodies” [Morrison et al., J. Bacteriol., 159:870 (1984); Neuberger et al., Nature, 312:604-608 (1984); Takeda et al., Nature, 314:452-454 (1985)] by splicing the genes from a mouse antibody molecule specific for a BCRP together with genes from a human antibody molecule of appropriate biological activity can be used; such antibodies are within the scope of this invention. Such human or humanized chimeric antibodies are preferred for use in therapy of human diseases or disorders (described infra), since the human or humanized antibodies are much less likely than xenogeneic antibodies to induce an immune response, in particular an allergic response, themselves. In a particular embodiment, the BCRP-expressing cells of the present invention are used to raise monoclonal antibodies to external cell surface epitopes. Antibody producer clones can be screened for differential staining of producer cells versus their parental packaging cells (see FIG. 1).

[0071] According to the invention, techniques described for the production of single chain antibodies [U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,476,786 and 5,132,405 to Huston; U.S. Pat. No. 4,946,778] can be adapted to produce for example, BCRP-specific single chain antibodies. An additional embodiment of the invention utilizes the techniques described for the construction of Fab expression libraries [Huse et al., Science, 246:1275-1281 (1989)] to allow rapid and easy identification of monoclonal Fab fragments with the desired specificity for a BCRP, or its derivatives, or analogs.

[0072] Antibody fragments which contain the idiotype of the antibody molecule can be generated by known techniques. For example, such fragments include but are not limited to: the F(ab′)₂ fragment which can be produced by pepsin digestion of the antibody molecule; the Fab′ fragments which can be generated by reducing the disulfide bridges of the F(ab′)₂ fragment, and the Fab fragments which can be generated by treating the antibody molecule with papain and a reducing agent.

[0073] In the production of antibodies, screening for the desired antibody can be accomplished by techniques known in the art, e.g., radioimmunoassay, ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay), “sandwich” immunoassays, immunoradiometric assays, gel diffusion precipitin reactions, immunodiffusion assays, in situ immunoassays (using colloidal gold, enzyme or radioisotope labels, for example), Western blots, precipitation reactions, agglutination assays (e.g., gel agglutination assays, hemagglutination assays), complement fixation assays, immunofluorescence assays, protein A assays, flow cytometry, and immunoelectrophoresis assays, etc. In one embodiment, antibody binding is detected by detecting a label on the primary antibody. In another embodiment, the primary antibody is detected by detecting binding of a secondary antibody or reagent to the primary antibody. In a further embodiment, the secondary antibody is labeled. Many means are known in the art for detecting binding in an immunoassay and are within the scope of the present invention. For example, to select antibodies which recognize a specific epitope of BCRP, one may assay generated hybridomas for a product which binds to the BCRP fragment containing such epitope and choose those which do not cross-react with BCRP. For selection of an antibody specific to a BCRP from a particular source, one can select on the basis of positive binding with BCRP expressed by or isolated from that specific source.

[0074] The present invention also provides methods for producing BCRP monoclonal antibodies that can be used to isolate living stem cells (see FIG. 1). In a preferred embodiment of this type the living stem cells are isolated by a cell sorting technique. One initial step can be to obtain a cDNA sequence encoding a BCRP and then inserting it into a vector construct (preferably a retroviral vector). This construct can then be introduced into packaging cells (e.g., retroviral packaging cells) to produce transducing vector particles. When GPE86 packaging cells are used, ecotropic ABCG2 (i.e., huBCRP) vector is produced in the supernatant, and can be used to transduce murine 3T3 cells. After applying the supernatant to logarithmically growing cells, transduced 3T3 cells that express the huBCRP can be isolated by flow cytometry based on their capacity to efflux the fluorescent dye Hoechst 33342. The 3T3 cells which express huBCRP (oval cell, see FIG. 1), can then be injected into the intraperitoneal space in mice. The strategy of using living cells transduced with the vector increases the probability that the immune system will detect external huBCRP epitopes in their native configuration, rather than epitopes that are internally located in the cells, or epitopes only present in denatured protein.

[0075] After several rounds of immunization, mice that show anti-huBCRP activity in the peripheral serum can be killed. Their spleens are then isolated and about 500 hybridoma clones are obtained by fusion with myeloma cells using standard techniques. Supernatants from these growing fusion clones are then screened for the presence of anti-huBCRP antibodies. This screening process involves transducing human MCF7 breast cancer cells with the huBCRP vector.

[0076] As depicted in FIG. 1, the reason that human breast cancer cells are preferred is that unwanted monoclonal antibodies (small cell #3) that react to native 3T3 cell proteins (squares and triangles) are not likely to bind to the human proteins present on MCF7 cells. Supernatants are then incubated with the transduced MCF7 cells which express huBCRP. These cells are then stained with a phycoerythrin (PE) conjugated secondary antibody that recognize mouse immunoglobulins. Flow cytometry is then used to detect cell samples that have PE-fluorescence, i.e., cells that bind the murine antibodies from the hybridoma supernatants. These supernatants are likely to contain anti-huBCRP antibodies from their respective monoclonal hybridomas (cell #1). However, it is also possible that the reactivity observed is not due to anti-huBCRP activity, but rather to a murine antibody that cross-reacts with a surface protein found on the MCF7 cell (hybridoma clone 2). To identify and eliminate such clones, all positive supernatants can be back-screened with the parental (non-tranduced) MCF7 cells. These cells do not express huBCRP, but do express all of the native surface proteins present on the transduced MCF7 cells. Therefore, all clones found to react with the parental (non-tranduced) MCF7 cells are discarded.

[0077] Hybridoma clones that pass this screening process are then expanded, resubcloned, and reanalzyed. Subclones that pass a second round of screening are then used to make monoclonal antibody containing supernatant in an ex vivo roller-bottle production system. The antibody can then be purified on an affinity column, the isotype can be determined, and the concentration of the antibody measured. This preparation can then be used to identify native stem cells that express the huBCRP gene product on their surface, and to isolate such cells by methods including but not limited to flow cytometry, immunoaffinity columns, or magnetic bead procedures.

[0078] The foregoing antibodies can be used in methods known in the art relating to the localization and activity of the BCRP, e.g., for Western blotting, imaging BCRP in situ, measuring levels thereof in appropriate physiological samples, etc. using any of the detection techniques mentioned herein or known in the art. In a specific embodiment, antibodies that agonize or antagonize the activity of BCRP can be generated. Such antibodies can be tested using the assays that measure the drug pumping ability of BCRP, for example.

[0079] The antibodies to the ABC transporters can be labeled. Suitable labels include enzymes, fluorophores (e.g., fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC), phycoerythrin (PE), Texas red (TR), rhodamine, free or chelated lanthanide series salts, especially Eu³⁺, to name a few fluorophores), chromophores, radioisotopes, chelating agents, dyes, colloidal gold, latex particles, ligands (e.g., biotin), and chemiluminescent agents. In the instance where a radioactive label, such as the isotopes ³H, ¹⁴C, ³²P, ³⁵S, ¹²⁵I, and ¹³¹I, are used, known currently available counting procedures may be utilized. In the instance where the label is an enzyme, detection may be accomplished by any of the presently utilized calorimetric, spectrophotometric, fluorospectrophotometric, amperometric or gasometric techniques known in the art.

[0080] Direct labels are one example of labels which can be used according to the present invention. A direct label has been defined as an entity, which in its natural state, is readily visible, either to the naked eye, or with the aid of an optical filter and/or applied stimulation, e.g. ultraviolet light to promote fluorescence. Among examples of colored labels, which can be used according to the present invention, include metallic sol particles, for example, gold sol particles such as those described by Leuvering (U.S. Pat. No. 4,313,734); dye sole particles such as described by Gribnau et al. (U.S. Pat. No. 4,373,932) and May et al. (WO 88/08534); dyed latex such as described by May, supra, Snyder (EP-A 0 280 559 and 0 281 327); or dyes encapsulated in liposomes as described by Campbell et al. (U.S. Pat. No. 4,703,017). Other direct labels include a radionucleotide, a fluorescent moiety or a luminescent moiety. In addition to these direct labeling devices, indirect labels comprising enzymes can also be used according to the present invention. Various types of enzyme linked immunoassays are well known in the art, for example, alkaline phosphatase and horseradish peroxidase, lysozyme, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase, urease, these and others have been discussed in detail by Eva Engvall in Enzyme Immunoassay ELISA and EMIT in Methods in Enzymology, 70:419-439 (1980) and in U.S. Pat. No. 4,857,453.

[0081] Suitable enzymes include, but are not limited to, alkaline phosphatase and horseradish peroxidase. In addition, an antibody can be modified to contain a marker protein such as green fluorescent protein as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,625,048 filed Apr. 29, 1997, WO 97/26333, published Jul. 24, 1997 and WO 99/64592 all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties. Other labels for use in the invention include magnetic beads or magnetic resonance imaging labels.

[0082] In another embodiment, a phosphorylation site can be created on an antibody of the invention for labeling with ³²P, e.g., as described in European Patent No. 0372707 (application No. 89311108.8) by Sidney Pestka, or U.S. Pat. No. 5,459,240, issued Oct. 17, 1995 to Foxwell et al.

[0083] Antibodies also can be labeled by metabolic labeling. Metabolic labeling occurs during in vitro incubation of the cells that express the protein in the presence of culture medium supplemented with a metabolic label, such as [³⁵S]-methionine or [³²P]-orthophosphate. In addition to metabolic (or biosynthetic) labeling with [³⁵S]-methionine, the invention further contemplates labeling with [¹⁴C]-amino acids and [³H]-amino acids (with the tritium substituted at non-labile positions).

Stem Cell Purification

[0084] After an appropriate antibody is identified, mouse bone marrow cells, for example, can be depleted of lineage positive cells, and the lin⁻ cells can be sorted for BCRP expression. Competitive repopulation assays can then be used to demonstrate the enrichment of stem cell activity in the BCRP-expressing fraction. BCRP sorting experiments can also be performed in lin⁻, ckit⁺, scal⁺ cells, and in CD34-cells to determine if these populations can be further enriched for stem cell activity. An analogous procedure can be performed using an alternative cell source, e.g., human cord blood cells.

[0085] Thus, BCRP sorting experiments can be performed using lin⁻, CD34-cells, as well as CD34⁺, CD38⁻ cells to determine the amount that BCRP expression enriches for repopulating activity in these stem cell populations. Sorted cells then can be injected into NOD/SCID mice in limiting dilution analyses to quantify the stem cell frequencies in these populations. This procedure can be repeated using bone marrow cells and cytokine-mobilized peripheral blood stem cells to demonstrate the utility of the procedure in various clinical stem cell sources. For example, SP cells were isolated from mouse muscle satellite cells and RT-PCR and FACS analysis was used to demonstrate that BCRP is also expressed in these cells (see Example 1 below). Reconstitution studies can also be performed using sorted BCRP-expressing muscle cells. Sorted donor cells can be identified after transplant using a GFP-transgenic mouse line for donor cells, for example, and analyzing recipients for GFP⁺ SP cells in the muscle.

[0086] Therefore, the present invention provides a functional basis for identifying SP stem cells, and furthermore, provides a new way to isolate stem cells both for research and clinical applications. For example, the present invention provides a method of isolating stem cells using an anti-BCRP antibody. These stem cells can originate from any tissue that contains stem cells including from bone marrow cells, muscle cells and even brain cells. Any method that allows the separation of cells that can be distinguished by their ability to bind a particular antibody can be employed. For example, to isolate hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow cells can be obtained from an animal subject, (preferably a human). Single cell suspensions can then be prepared. An anti-BCRP antibody can be incubated with the cells and the cells can be isolated using standard cell sorting methodology e.g., by fluorescent cell sorting [Bhatia et al., Nat. Med. 4:1038-1045 (1998)]. In a related embodiment, muscle stem cells can be isolated from a muscle cell sample [Gussoni et al., Nature 401:390 (1999)]. Alternatively, stem cells can be distinguished from non-stem cells by the specificity of the drug-pumping activity of BCRP.

[0087] Bone marrow cells can be obtained from any number of sources from an animal, including a human subject. For example, the cells can be harvested from iliac bone marrow from laboratory animals. Alternatively, hematopoietic stem cells can be obtained from umbilical chord cells. Another source for hematopoietic stem cells is from circulating fetal blood cells. In addition, a human subject, for example, can be treated with a cytotoxic drug and/or a hematopoietic stem cell stimulating cytokine (e.g., G-CSF). Mononuclear cells can then be collected by leukophoresis and the hematopoietic stem cells can be isolated from the peripheral blood cells by their selective binding to an antibody raised against CD34. One source of embryonic stem cells is embryonic/fetal tissue. Sources for obtaining stem cells from a particular tissue type (such as brain or liver) include but are not limited to biopsy samples and cadavers.

[0088] BCRP enriched stem cells can be used in the same way, and for the same purposes, as the enriched stem cells that are currently available, e.g., CD34 enriched stem cells. Indeed, the embryonic stem cells provided can be used generally, whereas specific adult stem cells obtained by the methods of the present invention can be used for specific stem cell transplantation e.g., hemopoietic stem cells for bone marrow transplantation, pancreatic stem cells to treat type II diabetes, and brain stem cells to treat Parkinson's disease. The stem cells provided by the present invention can also be used as cell targets in gene therapy protocols. Importantly, cell samples that are identified/selected to be enriched for BCRP expression by the methods disclosed herein comprise a more highly purified population of stem cells than any of the other currently available sources of stem cells that have been isolated based on any alternative stem cell marker (e.g., cell samples selected for expression of CD34). Thus, the enriched stem cell preparations provided by the present invention comprise fewer deleterious anti-host reacting cells and thereby their use significantly lowers the risk of graft versus host disease, and/or transplant rejection and may broaden the number of available donors for a given patient.

[0089] Therefore, the BCRP enriched cell samples of the present invention provide a preferred source of purified stem cells for therapeutic applications. These more highly enriched stem cell samples also allow therapeutic applications of stem cells such as allogeneic transplantation, that heretofore, could not be reliably performed due to the relatively higher level of contaminating non-stem cells in prior stem cell preparations.

[0090] Furthermore, these highly enriched stem cells are preferred for gene therapy because their use leads to an increase in transduction efficiency and reduces the amount of vector needed for transduction.

BCRP Expression and Leukemia

[0091] A significant number of leukemic cells, particularly Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) blasts, can efflux fluorescent dyes and certain chemotherapeutic agents such as mitoxantrone and duanomycin, despite the absence of MDR1 and MRP1 expression. A substantial proportion of these cases are contemplated to be due to the expression of BCRP. AML blasts from newly diagnosed pediatric patients can be assayed for BCRP expression using a variety of techniques as described herein in the context of stem cell identification and purification. Suitable techniques particularly include the use of flow cytometry after staining with a specific anti-BCRP antibody, immunocytochemistry, staining protein lysates with BCRP antibody in Western Blot analyses, and methods that measure BCRP mRNA levels such as PCR, real time PCR, Northern Blot analyses, and ribonuclease protection assays. In cases where significant levels of BCRP expression is found, it can be determined whether the expression of BCRP is due to mutations in the promoter, hypomethylation of promoter sequences, or due to changes in the transcription factor environment.

[0092] Determination of BCRP expression in leukemic cells, particularly AML blasts, provides useful information to the medical practitioner with regard to predicting the efficacy of administration of chemotherapeutic agents which are susceptible to efflux via BCRP. Such information may be used by the medical practitioner to determine the optimal course of treatment for a patient suffering from leukemia, particularly AML. For example, in those cases where the leukemic cells of a patient are determined to be expressing significant levels of BCRP, a course of treatment which does not rely upon agents susceptible to reduced efficacy via BCRP efflux such as bone marrow transplant or immunotherapy may be used. Furthermore, in cases where BCRP expression expression predicts poor prognosis with standard treatment, more aggressive treatment plans can be implemented at the outset including more aggressive chemotherapy, or bone marrow transplantation approaches.

[0093] The present invention may be better understood by reference to the following non-limiting Examples, which are provided as exemplary of the invention. These examples are presented in order to more fully illustrate the preferred embodiments of the invention. They should in no way be construed, however, as limiting the broad scope of the invention.

EXAMPLES Example 1 BCRP is Expressed in a Wide Variety of Side Population Stem Cells, Blocks Differentiation of Transduced Hematopoietic Stem Cells and can be used as a Marker for Purification of Stem Cells Introduction

[0094] Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) can be identified by staining with fluorescent dyes such as Rhodamine (Rho) 123 and purified based on efflux of such dyes [Orlic et al., Blood 82:762-770 (1993); Fleming et al., J.Cell Biol. 122:897-902 (1993); Spangrude and Johnson, Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 87:7433-7437 (1990); Zijlmans et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92:8901-8905 (1995)] and Hoechst 33342 [McAlister et al., Blood 75:1240-1246 (1990); Leemhuis et al., Exp.Hematol. 24:1215-1224 (1996); Wolf et al., Exp.Hematol. 21:614-622 (1993)]. The most primitive HSCs are characterized by low degrees of fluorescence after staining with these dyes, a property ascribed to both their capacity for dye efflux, and to relatively low degrees of mitochondrial staining [Kim et al., Blood 91:4106-4117 (1998)]. A related method for stem cell identification has been based on Hoechst dye-staining of whole bone marrow cells, followed by dual emission wavelength analysis by flow cytometry. This technique identifies a small fraction of side population (SP) cells that are highly enriched for repopulating activity [Goodell et al., J.Exp.Med. 183:1797-1806 (1996)].

[0095] This SP population is highly enriched for repopulating cells and is present in the bone marrow of all species examined [Goodell, M. A. et al., Nat. Med. 3:1337-1345 (1997)]. The SP phenotype can be blocked by drugs which inhibit cellular dye efflux mechanisms. It has been thought that the efflux activity responsible for the SP phenotype may be due to expression of P-glycoproteins (P-gps), the products of the mammalian multidrug resistance genes (MDR1 in humans and mdr1a and 1b in mice) [Sorrentino, B. P. et al., Blood 86: 491-501 (1995)]. This possibility is suggested by the facts that: (i) Rho123 and Hoechst 33342 are substrates for P-gp, (ii) primitive human hematopoietic cells express high levels of P-gp [Chaudhary and Roninson, Cell 66:85-94 (1991)], and (iii) the phenotype of SP cells can be blocked by verapamil, a competitive inhibitor of P-gp [Goodell et al., J.Exp.Med. 183:1797-1806 (1996)].

[0096] More recent evidence shows that the muscle contains reconstituting cells that can be identified by the SP phenotype [Gussoni et al., Nature 401:390-394 (1999); Jackson et al., Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. U.S.A 96:14482-14486 (1999), see comments] suggesting that expression of ABC transporters may be a general stem cell property [Orkin, S. H., Nat. Med. 6:1212-1213 (2000)]. Indeed whatever their exact function, it appears that expression of ABC transporters has been evolutionarily conserved in stem cells. The conservation of transporter expression in a wide variety of stem cells is consistent with an important functional role in stem cells.

[0097] Although many of the genes encoding ABC transporters were first identified based on their ability to confer drug resistance in tumor cells, it has recently become apparent that they can exert more general effects on cellular function. For example, MDR1 gene expression has been shown to inhibit caspase-dependent apoptosis in a variety of cells [Smyth et al., Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 95:7024-7029 (1998)] including hematopoietic cells [Johnstone et al., Blood 93:1075-1085 (1999)]. P-gps can also function as lipid translocases by redistributing membrane phospholipids from the inner to outer leaflet of the cell membrane [van Helvoort et al., Cell 87:507-517 (1996)].

[0098] Direct evidence that ABC transporters can have a functional effect in HSCs comes from studies of MDR1 gene transfer in mice [Bunting et al., Blood 92:2269-2279 (1998); Example 1 of U.S. Ser. No. 09/584,586 filed May 31, 2000, the disclosure of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties]. When murine bone marrow cells were transduced with an MDR1-expressing retroviral vector, dramatic expansion of repopulating stem cells was noted during a 12-day culture period [Bunting et al., Blood 92:2269-2279 (1998); Example 1 of U.S. Ser. No. 09/584,586 filed May 31, 2000, the disclosure of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties]. In contrast, repopulating activity was lost over time in control cultures [Bunting et al., Blood 96:902-909 (2000); Example 2 of U.S. Ser. No. 09/584,586 filed May 31, 2000, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety]. These results demonstrate that enforced expression of MDR1 results in stem cell self-renewal and expansion during extended culture periods. This expansion of repopulating cells was associated with a parallel increase in SP cells, while SP cells were lost over time in control cultures. These results directly link ABC transporter expression, or at least MDR1 expression, with the SP stem cell phenotype.

[0099] One possible mechanism for the stem cell expansion was that P-gp expression could result in the efflux of toxic media components from HSCs during the ex vivo culture period. This possibility was ruled out by the observation that MDR1-transduced stem cells had a direct proliferative advantage in vivo [Example 2 of U.S. Ser. No. 09/584,586 filed May 31, 2000, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety]. When transduced bone marrow cells were directly transplanted in irradiated mice, without an ex vivo expansion phase, there was a progressive outgrowth of MDR1-transduced cells relative to a control graft. These results show that MDR1 expression was conferring a more general effect on stem cell division, and not simply acting through a detoxification mechanism specific to ex vivo culture. Experiments with a mutant P-gp construct demonstrated that HSC expansion required the molecular pump function of P-gp, suggesting that the mechanism of expansion involved modulation of some endogenous molecular substrate within HSCs [Example 2 of U.S. Ser. No. 09/584,586 filed May 31, 2000, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety]. Collectively, these studies show that NMDR1 gene expression can promote HSC self-renewal and amplification.

[0100] Heretofore, it was not known if this property is unique to the MDR1 gene, or whether other ABC transporters can exert a similar function.

Results

[0101] The regulated expression of endogenous P-gps in HSCs appears to be important in facilitating the self-renewal divisions that maintain the stem cell compartment over time [see Examples 1 and 2 of U.S. Ser. No. 09/584,586 filed May 31, 2000, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety] and indeed, one or more naturally occurring endogenous ABC transporters apparently plays a critical functional role in stem cell homeostasis. This premise is consistent with two observations: (i) HSCs universally express dye-effluxing transporters; and (ii) enforced expression of MDR1 leads to stem cell amplification and myeloproliferation [see Example 1 of U.S. Ser. No. 09/584,586 filed May 31, 2000, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety].

[0102] As disclosed herein, an alternate ABC transporter(s) is expressed in SP stem cells derived from the mdr1a/1b knockout mouse. The analyses of mRNA from sorted SP stem cells have identified several newly cloned transporters that are expressed in SP HSCs, that may possibly have a role in the self-renewal process of HSCs. The most highly expressed is the Bcrp1/Mxr/Abcp/ABCG2 gene product, BCRP. Importantly, there is no detectable expression of BCRP in peripheral blood leukocytes, spleen, or thymus at the level of Northern blot analysis, while small but detectable amounts of BCRP mRNA were expressed in human fetal liver.

[0103] An ABC Transporter Other than P-gp is Expressed in Murine SP HSCs:

[0104] Quantitative repopulation assays were performed using commercially available mdr1a/ab−−/−− mice as donors because it is well known that severe quantitative stem cell abnormalities can coexist with relatively normal peripheral blood counts such as in W/WV mice. Normal numbers of repopulating cells were found to be present in the bone marrow. Bone marrow cells were then analyzed for the content of SP cells after staining with Hoechst dye. To confirm that the knockout mice had the expected phenotype, it was verified that the capacity for Rho 123 efflux had been lost in peripheral blood leukocytes as has been previously described [Schinkel et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94:4028-4033 (1997)]. Despite this loss of P-gp related transporter function, SP cells were present in normal numbers in the bone marrow when compared to wild type mice of the same strain. This indicates that another ABC transporter is likely being expressed, potentially compensating for the loss of P-gp function.

[0105] To further test this possibility, biochemical studies were performed on knockout bone marrow cells using known inhibitors of ABC transporter efflux function. Cells were treated with either verapamil or 2-deoxyglucose. Verapamil is a competitive inhibitor of several known ABC transporters including MDR1, whereas 2-deoxyglucose is an inhibitor of ATP synthesis that depletes cellular ATP levels required for ABC transporter function. Treatment with either of these compounds before and during Hoechst 33342 staining eliminated phenotypically identifiable SP cells. These results conclusively demonstrate that another ABC transporter(s) is being expressed in SP cells from the bone marrow of mdr1a/1b knockout mice and is (are) responsible for the SP phenotype.

[0106] Identification of Bcrp as an Expressed ABC Transporter in Hematopoietic Stem Cells:

[0107] An RT-PCR assay was developed to detect mRNA expression of other known ABC transporters in murine bone marrow SP cells. Based on the published human sequences for MRP1 [Cole et al., Science 258:1650-1654 (1992), see comments], MRPs 2, 3, 4 [Kool et al., Cancer Res. 57:3537-3547 (1997)], and BCRP [Doyle et al., Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. U.S.A 95:15665-15670 (1998):published erratum appears in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 96(5):2569 (1999)] homologous sequences from the murine EST database were identified to design PCR primers for cDNA amplification. Multiple primer sets were tested using mouse liver cDNA as a template, and primer sets were chosen that gave specific bands of the expected size. Using FACS, bone marrow SP cells were sorted from both normal mice and the mdr1a/1b knockout mouse. Total cellular RNA was prepared from 50,000 and 100,000 purified SP cells, and then used for RT-PCR analysis. These experiments showed that the Bcrp1 (MBCRP) mRNA was the most highly expressed of all the transporters studied. Moderate expression levels were observed for mrp4 and mrp1, while mrp3 was expressed at very low levels, and no detectable expression of mrp2 was observed. The low levels of expression of mrp1 in the liver correlated with previously described low levels of expression of MRP1 in human liver [Kool et al., Cancer Res. 57:3537-3547 (1997)]. Virtually identical results were obtained using sorted SP cells from normal mice.

[0108] It is important to note that while SP cells are highly enriched for repopulating cells, at least 250 SP cells are required to achieve significant repopulation in mice [Goodell et al., J.Exp.Med. 183:1797-1806 (1996)] indicating that most SP cells are not true stem cells. In contrast, it has previously been shown that CD34⁻, c-kit⁺, Scal⁺, lineage negative (CD34-KSL) cells from the bone marrow are a relatively pure subset of repopulating cells, with repopulation in about 20% of mice that are transplanted with single sorted cells [Osawa et al., Science 273:242-245 (1996)]. Therefore, transporter expression was studied in the highly purified CD34-KSL population, as well as from a number of other different sorted populations.

[0109] Like SP cells, the CD34-KSL cells expressed relatively high levels of mBCRP mRNA, however in contrast to SP cells, there were little to no expression of the other ABC transporters. In the more differentiated CD34⁺ KSL cell fraction, there was marked downregulation of mBCRP expression with the appearance of significant expression of mrp1, 2, and 4. The S⁺K⁺Lin⁻ population is a mixture of CD34⁻ and +cells, and gave results that were intermediate between the CD34⁺ and − subfractions. mBCRP expression was not detectable in granulocytes, macrophages, B cells, or thymocytes. The only other cell populations with detectable MBCRP expression were erythroid progenitors (Ter119⁺) and natural killer cells (NK1.1⁺). These results suggest that mBCRP expression is highly specific for repopulating stem cells in the lineage negative compartment of the bone marrow, and that expression of other transporters in the sorted SP cell population were likely due to the presence of more differentiated cells with lesser degrees of repopulation potential. These data indicate that BCRP expression should be a useful marker for stem cell identification and purification. The expression data are also consistent with a necessary functional role for BCRP gene expression in repopulating hematopoietic stem cells, and perhaps in SP stem cells from muscle and other tissues.

[0110] High Levels of Expression of BCRP mRNA in Sorted SP Cells from Rhesus Monkey Bone Marrow:

[0111] To determine if primate SP cells were expressing BCRP, a bone marrow aspirate sample was obtained from a normal Rhesus Monkey. After lysis of the red blood cells, the leukocyte population was stained with Hoechst dye and analyzed by flow cytometry for SP cells. The flow pattern was very similar to that obtained with mouse bone marrow, with about 0.05% of cells falling into the SP gate (see above). Sorting was performed and resulted in isolation of 2000 SP cells, and 10,000 cells from a distinct gate outside of the SP region (non-SP cells). RNA was extracted, and a RT-PCR cycle curve using β-actin primers as an internal control showed roughly equivalent signals at 35 cycles for non-SP cells versus 60 cycles for SP cells. These PCR conditions were repeated using BCRP-specific primers in place of the β-actin primers. A strong signal was obtained with BCRP primers at 60 cycles in the SP cells sample, and a much fainter signal was detected at 50 cycles. No BCRP signal was detected at 35 cycles in the non-SP sample, which was the highest cycle number used for this sample. These results demonstrate relatively specific, high level expression of BCRP mRNA in monkey SP cells since the β-actin signal for non-SP cells at 35 cycles was actually greater than the signal for SP cells at 60 cycles. Taken together with the mouse data, (above) these results show that the expression of a BCRP transporter ortholog is conserved in SP stem cells from diverse species. In addition, these results further confirm that human stem cells can be identified and/or purified by monitoring/exploiting their unique BCRP expression.

[0112] Expression of Bcrp1 in Murine Myoblast SP Cells and Murine ES Cells:

[0113] Stem cells bearing the SP phenotype have also been identified in murine muscle, and appear to be related to the satellite cells that are located on the periphery of the muscle fiber. Consistently, these cells also appear to be associated with muscle regeneration.

[0114] SP cells were therefore isolated from the murine muscle, and assayed for mBCRP expression by RT-PCR to further correlate Bcrp1 (MBCRP) expression with the SP phenotype. Muscle tissue was dissected, minced, digested with collagenase, and a single cell suspension was stained with Hoechst dye for SP cell analysis. An SP population of cells was observed with FACS analysis that bears a striking resemblance to the profile seen with bone marrow cells. Gated myoblast SP cells were sorted, and RNA was prepared from a fraction of 20,000 cells. RT-PCR analysis showed relatively high levels of mBCRP expression. However, unlike the results with monkey bone marrow, a distinct non-SP cell fraction was not available for analysis.

[0115] These results further support the conclusion that MBCRP expression can be used to identify SP stem cells from a variety of organs.

[0116] In contrast to the results described above, the non-SP population from murine ES cells expressed mBCRP at equivalent levels to the SP fraction. This is not surprising because ES cells are clonally derived and are expected to be homogenous with regard to gene expression. These results show that mBCRP expression is conserved in all SP populations that were studied, and suggests a possible required role for mBCRP in stem cell function.

[0117] Vector-mediated Expression of ABCG2 (huBCRP) Directly Confers the SP Phenotype.

[0118] A pcDNA-based BCRP vector was used to transfect Soas2 cells, which were then analyzed for their dye efflux properties. Transfected clones readily effluxed Hoechst dye but not rho, and the efflux activity was fully inhibited by reserpine. Furthermore, an inactivating mutation in the Walker A motif abolished the Hoechst dye efflux activity, showing the requirement for transporter pump function in dye efflux. These findings are fully consistent with the Hoechst low, rho bright phenotype of bone marrow SP cells from mdr1a/1b^(−/−) mice.

[0119] A retroviral producer cell line was then used based on the Harvey murine sarcoma virus backbone (HaBCRP) to transduce normal murine bone marrow cells. After culture in myeloid cytokines for 12 days, vector-transduced cells showed a large increase in the number of SP cells, with greater than 60% of the cells falling within the SP region. By comparison, only 0.05% of cells that were mock-transduced showed the SP phenotype. HaBCRP-transduced bone marrow cells were also transplanted into lethally irradiated recipients to determine if SP expansion could be directly obtained in vivo. Three mice were killed 5 weeks after transplant, and all showed increased proportions of SP cells in the bone marrow ranging between 1.4 to 11.4% SP cells. Altogether, these results show that expression of HuBCRP transporter can directly confer the SP phenotype in transduced primary bone marrow cells.

[0120] Enforced Expression of HuBCRP in Murine Bone Marrow Cells Blocks Differentiation.

[0121] To determine the functional effects of enforced HuBCRP expression, HaBCRP-transduced bone marrow cells were assayed for their ability to generate myeloid progenitor colonies. In cells that were analyzed directly after transduction, a significant decrease in CFU-C and CFU-S formation was seen in HaBCRP-transduced populations. The plating efficiency of CFU-C was decreased between 4-6 fold in 2 independent experiments. Control cells gave confluent CFU-S at a dose of 1×10⁵ cells, while HaBCRP-transduced cells gave only a few discrete colonies. To control for non-specific effects of HuBCRP expression in the producer cells during the coculture phase of transduction, bone marrow cells were also co-cultured with HaBCRP-transduced 3T3 cells. No effects on progenitor content were seen with this control.

[0122] Lethally irradiated C57B1/6J mice were then transplanted with HaBCRP-transduced cells and the effects on hematopoietic reconstitution were studied. Despite amplification of SP cells in the bone marrow in all 3 cases, transduction with HaBCRP was associated with a significant decrease in the peripheral white blood cell count at 5 weeks, and a parallel decrease in the CFU-C content in the bone marrow. Competitive repopulation assays were next performed to more precisely quantify the effects of vector expression on myeloid maturation. Mock-transduced bone marrow cells were competed in equal ratios with either HaBCRP-transduced cells, or with cells transduced with a control MSCV-GFP vector. At 9 weeks after transplant, peripheral contributions to the erythrocyte compartment were measured using an electrophoresis assay that distinguishes between donor specific hemoglobin polymorphisms [Bunting, K. D. et al., Blood 96: 902-909 (2000); U.S. Ser. No. 09/584,586 filed May 31, 2000, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties]. These studies showed that the HaBCRP vector caused a marked inhibition of erythroid repopulation that was not seen in mock controls. Altogether, these results show that enforced expression of HuBCRP can block hematopoietic differentiation, and suggest that endogenously expressed BCRP HuBCRP may function to maintain stem cells in a primitive, pluripotent state. Derivation of murine monoclonal antibodies against the human ABCG2 (huBCRP) gene product: A human BCRP cDNA was obtained as a full length EST from Genome Systems in St. Louis, Mo. (see Methods above). This cDNA was cloned into the Harvey murine sarcoma virus backbone to create the HaBCRP retroviral vector, as described above. This vector was next introduced into the ecotropic packaging cell line GPE86, and vector-containing supernatant was used transduce NIH 3T3 cells. A polyclonal population of cells (designated 3T3-BCRP) was isolated by flow cytometry, gating on cells that efflux the fluorescent dye Hoechst 33342. Expression of the HuBCRP gene product in these cells was confirmed by Western blot analysis using a polyclonal serum raised in rabbits to an internal peptide epitope.

[0123] The 3T3-BCRP cells were used to immunize mice. Twenty BALB-C mice were immunized with whole, living 3T3-BCRP cells by injecting 4 million cells directly into the peritoneal space. Fourteen days later, these cells were reinjected as an immunization boost. Individual mice that showed antibody reactivity in the serum were killed and hybridoma clones were isolated after cell fusion and selection with HAT media. Supernatants from each hybridoma clone were screened by flow cytometry using a human breast cancer cell line (MCF-7) that had been transduced with an amphotrophic HaBCRP vector. Any supernatant that showed reactivity in this assay was then back-screened on the parental MCF-7 line, and clones that reacted with the MCF-7 HaBCRP cells but not with the parental MCF-7 line were scored as positive and specific. These cells were then subcloned, and re-screened based on the indicator cell lines (see FIG. 1).

[0124] Independent subclones that show relatively large shifts with the MCF-7 HaBCRP cells, but not with the parental control cells are then isolated. Clones that can detect expression of the HaBCRP vector in bone marrow cells from previously transplanted mice are then expanded to produce larger quantities of supernatant ex vivo with a rollerbottle production system. The antibodies are then purified on an affinity column. These antibodies can then be tested for their ability to detect the endogenously expressed huBCRP gene product in human umbilical cord blood samples. Antibodies that detect the endogenously expressed ABCG2 gene product in human umbilical cord blood samples can then be used to identify and/or isolate stem cells.

Discussion

[0125] While Hoechst and rho dye staining have long served as methods for hematopoietic stem cell purification, the molecular basis for this phenotype has not been defined. The results provided herein show that both Bcrp1 and MDR1 homologues are expressed in a relatively restricted manner in primitive stem cells. The fact that SP cells are not diminished in mdr1a1b^(−/−) mice is explained by the compensatory Hoechst efflux activity provided by Bcrp1 expression. The lack of rho dull SP cells in mdr1a1b^(−/−) mice is similarly explained by the fact that Pgp can efflux rho but the BCRP pump cannot. The finding that these dye efflux activities are molecularly distinguishable has significant implications for stem cell purification strategies. For instance, murine ES cells do not efflux rho, implying that Hoechst dye efflux (mBCRP expression) is a more specific stem cell marker.

[0126] Several aspects of the data disclosed herein indicate that BCRP plays an important functional role in stem cells. The conserved expression of this transporter in SP stem cells from a wide variety of sources is consistent with a required function. Secondly, the tightly regulated expression pattern of Bcrp1 in murine hematopoiesis, where expression is markedly decreased in early stages of differentiation, is consistent with a stem cell-specific role. Further evidence is provided by overexpression studies, where enforced huBCRP expression leads to a defect in hematopoietic differentiation. In vivo, the HaBCRP vector caused an accumulation of SP cells in the bone marrow, but mature progeny from these cells were significantly decreased in the bone marrow and peripheral blood, and a direct inhibitory effect on CFU-C and CFU-S formation was observed. Altogether, these results are best explained by a model where Bcrp1 expression in stem cells confers relative resistance to commitment and differentiation and thereby contributes to maintaining a primitive, pluripotent state. This potential anti-differentiative effect would then be alleviated with the observed decrease in expression that occurs during early commitment. Along these lines, the results of enforced expression can now be explained by promiscuous expression of Bcrp] in more mature compartments where endogenous expression does not normally occur. The block to development could occur in these compartments as the result of deregulated Bcrp1 expression.

[0127] In considering the mechanism for these effects, it is notable that the normal physiologic functions of BCRP have not yet been defined. The gene was first isolated from human tumor cell lines and shown to be involved in drug resistance [Doyle, L. A. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. A 95:15665-15670 (1998); Miyake, K. et al., Cancer Res. 59:8-13 (1999); Maliepaard, M. et al., Cancer Res. 59: 4559-4563 (1999)]. The primary structure of huBCRP shares the highest homology with the Drosophila white gene product. These “half transporters” have only one ATP binding cassette, and are thought to require homo- or heterodimerization for ATP hydrolysis and function. The white gene product heterodimerizes with two other half transporters, and these interactions specifically define eye color in Drosophila [Ewart, G. D. et al., J. Biol. Chem. 269,10370-10377 (1994)]. BCRP may also form heterodimers in mammalian cells with other as yet undefined partners, and these interactions could affect substrate specificity.

[0128] While the mechanism for the effects of huBCRP expression on hematopoietic differentiation is not known, several general possibilities can be proposed. There is a precedent for the ability of ABC transporters to maintain stem cell primitivity in lower organisms. Dictyostelium cells express a transport activity defined by rho efflux that maintains cells in a primitive undifferentiated state [Good, J. R. & Kuspa, A., Dev. Biol. 220: 53-61 (2000)]. This effect is conferred by efflux of a differentiation-inducing factor, DIF-1, from the interior of prespore cells. It is possible that Bcrp1 is modulating an analogous substrate in mammalian cells. A second possibility is that the Bcrp1 pump may play a role in mediating extracellular signals that dictate stem cell interactions with the microenvironment. This type of effect on extracellular signaling has recently been demonstrated in mrp1^(−/−) mice, where this transporter has been shown to be required for normal dendritic cell migration via transport of leukotrienes to the extracellular space [Robbiani, D. R. et al., Cell 103:757-768 (2000)]. A third possibility is that Bcrp1 may be providing a function that is redundant with mdr1a, so that the loss of a potential anti-apoptotic signal in stem cells in the mdr1a/1b^(−/−) knockout mice could be compensated by Bcrp1 expression.

Methods

[0129] Retroviral-mediated Gene Transfer into Murine Hematopoietic Stem Cells:

[0130] Bone marrow cells can be harvested from C57BL/6 or B6.Ch-1<b>/By (referred to as “HW80”) congenic mouse strains (Jackson Laboratories, Bar Harbor, Me.) by standard methods. Following isolation, cells are placed into liquid suspension culture in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (DMEM) (BioWhittaker, Walkersville, Md.) with 1% penicillin/streptomycin (Gibco/BRL, Grand Island, N.Y.), 15% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Hyclone, Logan Utah), 20 ng/ml murine interleukin (IL)-3 R & D Systems, Minneapolis, Minn.), 50 ng/ml human IL-6 (Amgen, Thousand Oaks, Calif.), and 50 ng/ml murine stem cell factor R & D Systems). The cells are initially plated at 1×10⁶ cells/ml in 10 mls of medium. Following pre-stimulation for 48 hours, cells are replated onto confluent monolayers of irradiated ecotropic producer cell lines. The bone marrow cells were plated at the same density used in the pre-stimulation phase and in the same medium with 6 μg/ml polybrene added. Co-culture with producer cells is continued for 48 hours followed by harvest of bone marrow cells. A small sample of bone marrow cells are plated into methylcellulose to score drug-resistant myeloid progenitors.

[0131] Southern Blot Analysis:

[0132] DNA can be prepared as previously described [Sorrentino et al., Science 257:99-103 (1992)]. Typically 10 to 20 mg of genomic DNA is restriction digested with either EcoRI or NheI, and separated on a 1% agarose gel. Gels can be blotted overnight onto Hybond N⁺ nylon membrane (Amersham), UV crosslinked, and hybridized with either MDR1 or hemoglobin-specific [³²P]-labeled probes. Blots are washed extensively at 65° C., exposed overnight, and can be analyzed on a phosphorimager (Molecular Dynamics).

[0133] Rhodamine 123 (Rho123) Staining:

[0134] Rho123 staining can be performed by trypsinizing cells, resuspending the cells in DMEM medium containing 10% FCS at a concentration of 1×10⁶ cells ml, and adding Rho 123 (Sigma) at a final concentration of 1 ug/ml. The cells are then incubated at 37° C. for one hour in the dark, washed once with 10 mls of PBS, and resuspended in DMEM/10% FCS. The cells are next incubated at 37° C. for one hour to allow for efflux, spun down, and then resuspended in 1 ml of PBS for FACS analysis.

[0135] 4E3 Antibody and Rhodamine 123 Staining:

[0136] Producer cells can be analyzed for an ABC transporter, e.g., P-gp expression by staining with a monoclonal mouse anti-human P-glycoprotein antibody (clone 4E3, DAKO, Carpinteria, Calif.). Adherent cells are trypsinized, and resuspended in 50 ul PBS containing 2% BSA and 0.1% NaN3. 5 ul of the 4E3 antibody are then added, incubated at room temp (RT) for 30 minutes, washed twice with phosphate buffered saline (PBS), and then resuspended in 50 ul PBS containing 2% BSA and 0.1% NaN3. After the primary antibody staining, 5 ul of PE-conjugated, rabbit anti-mouse antibody (DAKO) is added as a secondary stain. The cells are then incubated at RT for 30 minutes, washed twice with PBS, resuspended in PBS for FACS analysis.

[0137] Hoechst 33342 SP Cell Assay:

[0138] Murine bone marrow cells are collected and resuspended at 1×10⁶ cells/ml in DMEM plus 10 mM HEPES and 2% FBS. In a water bath, the cells are allowed to equilibrate at 37° C., followed by addition of 5 μg/ml Hoechst 33342 (Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, Pa.) for 90 minutes as previously described [Goodell et al., J. Exp. Med., 183:1797-1806 (1996)]. Cells are then centrifuged at 4° C. and resuspended in ice cold HBSS plus 10 mM HEPES and 2% FBS at 1×10⁷ cells/ml. For flow cytometric analysis or sorting, a Becton Dickinson FACS Vantage flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, Calif.) can be configured for dual emission wavelength analysis as previously described [Goodell et al., J. Exp. Med., 183:1797-1806 (1996)]. Cells are gated based on forward and side light scatter to exclude debris. Propidium iodide staining (2 μg/ml) can be utilized to derive a gate excluding dead cells. Cells are analyzed at approximately 5,000 cells/second until data from 1×10⁶ cells are collected. The SP cell gate can be defined based on normal fresh bone marrow cells,(C57BL/6 for example).

[0139] Mice:

[0140] Both male and female mdr1a/1b^(−/−) mice, backcrossed onto the FVB background, were purchased from Taconic Labs (Germantown, N.Y.). For transplant studies, female C57BL/6J and B6.C-H1b/ByJ mice (referred to as HW80) were purchased from Jackson Laboratories (Bar Harbor, Me.), and used between 8 and 14 weeks of age.

[0141] SP Cell Analysis.

[0142] Murine and Rhesus monkey SP cell analyses was performed exactly as previously described [Goodell, M. A. et al., J. Exp. Med. 183:1797-1806 (1996); Goodell, M. A. et al., Nat. Med. 3:1337-1345 (1997)]. For the inhibitor experiments, 2-deoxyglucose and sodium azide (Sigma, St. Louis), or reserpine (Sigma) were added to cells at a final concentration of 50 and 15 mM, or 5 μM respectively. Cells were then incubated at 37° C. for 15 minutes prior to adding Hoechst 33342 dye. In other experiments, bone marrow cells were incubated in the presence of 0.1 μg/ml rhodamine 123 (Sigma) at 37° C. for 20 minutes, then resuspended in medium containing Hoechst 33342 for SP analysis.

[0143] Cell Sorting and RNA Extraction.

[0144] Using a FACS Vantage (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, Calif.) for flow cytometric sorting, approximately 300,000 and 160,000 SP cells were isolated from the bone marrow of mdr1a/1b^(−/−) and wildtype mice respectively. Rhesus monkey bone marrow cells from a 2 ml aspirate were sorted by flow cytometry, and approximately 2,000 SP and 10,000 non-SP cells were isolated. Single cell suspensions of murine skeletal muscle cells were prepared for SP analysis as previously described [Gussoni, E. et al., Nature 401:390-394 (1999)], and 10,000 SP and non-SP cells were sorted. The procedure for purifying murine CD34⁻ stem cells has been previously described [Osawa, M. et al., Science 273:242-245 (1996)]. In all cases, total RNA from the sorted cells was isolated using RNA STAT-60 (Tel-Test, INC. Friendswood, Tex.) according to the manufacture's recommendations.

[0145] RT-PCR Assays.

[0146] The primers used for PCR amplification are as follows: murine bcrp1: 5′-CCATAGCCACAGGCCAAAGT-3′, SEQ ID NO:17 and 5′-GGGCCACATGATTCTTCCAC-3′, SEQ ID NO:18 for a 327bp fragment; Rhesus BCRP: 5′-GGCCTCAGGAAGACTTTATGT-3′, SEQ ID NO:19 and 5′-AAGGAGGTGGTGTAGCTGAT-3′, SEQ ID NO:20 for a 342bp fragment.

[0147] Multiplex PCR for MDR1 like genes utilized a forward primer for mdr1a and mdr2

[0148] 5′-AGCTGGAGAGATCCTCACC-3′, SEQ ID NO:21,

[0149] a forward primer for mdr1b

[0150] 5′-AGCCGGAGAGATCCTCACC-3′, SEQ ID NO:22 and

[0151] reverse primers for mdr1a, mdr1b, and mdr2 respectively: 5′-CTGTAGCTGTCAATCTCGGG-3′, SEQ ID NO:23, 5′-CTGTAGCTGTCAATCTCAGG-3′, SEQ ID NO:24, and 5′-CTGTAGCTGTCAATCAGAGG-3′, SEQ ID NO:25.

[0152] These primers amplify a 730 bp fragment for all 3 cDNAs.

[0153] PCR products were digested with a mixture of BstXI, BglII, and EcoRI at 37° C. to distinguish the relative contributions from each cDNA species (mdr1a BstXI digestion: 619+111 bp, mdr1b BglII digestion: 305+425 bp, mdr2 EcoRI digestion: 452+278 bp).

[0154] RNA was treated with RQ1 RNase-free Dnase (Promega, Madison, Wis.) and reverse transcribed into cDNA by using Superscript II RT (Gibco-BRL, Gaithersburg, Md.) and a mixture of oligo dT primers and random hexamers, according to the manufacturers instructions. All cDNAs were first normalized using GAPDH as a standard. In the experiments involving murine SP populations, ABC transporter amplification were performed using 32 cycles. In CD34⁻ experiments, GAPDH normalized cDNA aliquots were amplified with mBCRP primers for 35 cycles. In the Rhesus monkey experiments, RNA from 2000 SP cells was amplified for HuBCRP or β-actin using 60 cycles, while RNA from 10,000 non-SP cells was amplified using 35 cycles, based on the observation that these different conditions gave equivalent β-actin signals from each sample. All PCR reactions were performed using 0.2 μL P³²-labeled CTP at 800 μCi/mmol/L in the reaction mix. After amplification, 20 μL of the reaction mix was electrophoresed on a 5% nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel.

[0155] HuBCRP expression vectors, transduction, and transplants.

[0156] The human BCRP cDNA was obtained (Genome Systems, St. Louis, Mo.) as a full length EST # 52176, SEQ ID NO:26. This cDNA was cloned either into the pcDNA₃ expression vector (Invitrogen, Palo Alto, Calif.), or used to replace the MDR1 cDNA in the HaMDR1sc vector [Bunting, K. D. et al., Blood 92: 2269-2279 (1998); Bunting, K. D. et al., Blood 96: 902-909 (2000); U.S. Ser. No. 09/584,586 filed May 31, 2000, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties]. Polyclonal populations of ecotropic producer cells were generated by transducing GP⁺E86 packaging cells [Markowitz, D. et al., J. Virol. 62:1120-1124 (1988)] with a transient supernatant derived from transfected 293T cells, as previously described [Persons, D. A. et al., Blood Cells Mol. Dis. 24: 167-182 (1998)]. Vector-transduced producer cells were then isolated by cell sorting for Hoechst 33342 dim cells. The methods for transduction of bone marrow cells, in vitro expansion of cells, murine transplants, and competitive repopulation assays has been previously described [Allay, J. A. et al., Nat. Med. 4:1136-1143 (1998)]. CFU-C and CFU-S assays were done as previously described [Allay, J. A. et al., Blood 90: 3546-3554 (1997); Persons, D. A. et al., Blood 90:1777-1786 (1997)].

Example 2 BCRP Expression in Blasts From Pediatric Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)

[0157] Clinical evidence shows an association between dysregulated ABC transporter expression and human leukemia. In chronic myelogenous leukemia, about 60% of chronic phase patients exhibit P-gp expression in leukemic cells from the bone marrow [Giles et al., Cancer 86:805-813 (1999)]. In patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), between 35 and 70% of cases demonstrate P-gp expression in leukemic blasts at diagnosis, and P-gp expression was a strongly negative prognostic factor [Leith et al., Blood 94:1086-1099 (1999)]. In contrast, normal late myeloid cells in humans do not express P-gp [Drach et al., Blood 80:2729-2734 (1992), see comments]. In some cases, increased P-gp expression in blast cells was due to hypomethylation of sequences in the MDR1 promoter [Nakayama et al., Blood 92:4296-4307 (1998)]. Expression of other ABC transporters can occur in human AML, as has been documented for the multidrug resistance protein (MRP1), and the lung resistance protein (LRP) [Leith et al., Blood 94:1086-1099 (1999); Michieli et al., Br. J.Haematol. 104:328-335 (1999)]. Importantly, a significant number of AML cases showed inhibitable dye efflux activity that was not associated with MDR1, MRP1, or LRP [Michieli et al., Br. J.Haematol. 104:328-335 (1999); Leith et al., Blood 86:2329-2342 (1995)].

[0158] To determine if BCRP expression could be detected in leukemia cells from pediatric patients with AML, RT-PCR analysis was performed on RNAs derived from leukemic bone marrow from four individual cases. Two cases were strongly positive for BCRP mRNA, with BCRP-amplified fragments detected at 25 cycles of amplification. Interestingly both of these “high-expressing” cases were associated with the M1 FAB phenotype. Two other cases with an M5 phenotype did not show any detectable signal at 25 cycles, but BCRP could be detected at 30 cycles. β-actin controls demonstrated that this variation was not due to differences in mRNA loading. The low level signal seen in the M5 cases could have been due to contaminating erythroid progenitors which may be expressing BCRP, or due to low level BCRP expression in the blast cells. These data confirm that BCRP mRNA expression can be detected in at least some primary AML samples. Furthermore, these results provide further impetus for using an anti-BCRP antibody to probe blast cell samples in the diagnosis/prognosis of AML.

[0159] While the invention has been described and illustrated herein by references to the specific embodiments, various specific material, procedures and examples, it is understood that the invention is not restricted to the particular material combinations of material, and procedures selected for that purpose. Indeed, various modifications of the invention in addition to those described herein will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the foregoing description. Such modifications are intended to fall within the scope of the appended claims.

[0160] It is further to be understood that all base sizes or amino acid sizes, and all molecular weight or molecular mass values, given for nucleic acids or polypeptides are approximate, and are provided for description.

[0161] Various publications, patent applications and patents are cited herein, the disclosures of which are incorporated by reference in their entireties.

1 27 1 3860 DNA Homo sapiens 1 atggatcttg aaggggaccg caatggagga gcaaagaaga agaacttttt taaactgaac 60 aataaaagtg aaaaagataa gaaggaaaag aaaccaactg tcagtgtatt ttcaatgttt 120 cgctattcaa attggcttga caagttgtat atggtggtgg gaactttggc tgccatcatc 180 catggggctg gacttcctct catgatgctg gtgtttggag aaatgacaga tatctttgca 240 aatgcaggaa atttagaaga tctgatgtca aacatcacta atagaagtga tatcaatgat 300 acagggttct tcatgaatct ggaggaagac atgaccagat atgcctatta ttacagtgga 360 attggtgctg gggtgctggt tgctgcttac attcaggttt cattttggtg cctggcagct 420 ggaagacaaa tacacaaaat tagaaaacag ttttttcatg ctataatgcg acaggagata 480 ggctggtttg atgtgcacga tgttggggag cttaacaccc gacttacaga tgatgtctct 540 aagattaatg aaggtattgg tgacaaaatt ggaatgttct ttcagtcaat ggcaacattt 600 ttcactgggt ttatagtagg atttacacgt ggttggaagc taacccttgt gattttggcc 660 atcagtcctg ttcttggact gtcagctgct gtctgggcaa agatactatc ttcatttact 720 gataaagaac tcttagcgta tgcaaaagct ggagcagtag ctgaagaggt cttggcagca 780 attagaactg tgattgcatt tggaggacaa aagaaagaac ttgaaaggta caacaaaaat 840 ttagaagaag ctaaaagaat tgggataaag aaagctatta cagccaatat ttctataggt 900 gctgctttcc tgctgatcta tgcatcttat gctctggcct tctggtatgg gaccaccttg 960 gtcctctcag gggaatattc tattggacaa gtactcactg tattcttttc tgtattaatt 1020 ggggctttta gtgttggaca ggcatctcca agcattgaag catttgcaaa tgcaagagga 1080 gcagcttatg aaatcttcaa gataattgat aataagccaa gtattgacag ctattcgaag 1140 agtgggcaca aaccagataa tattaaggga aatttggaat tcagaaatgt tcacttcagt 1200 tacccatctc gaaaagaagt taagatcttg aagggcctga acctgaaggt gcagagtggg 1260 cagacggtgg ccctggttgg aaacagtggc tgtgggaaga gcacaacagt ccagctgatg 1320 cagaggctct atgaccccac agaggggatg gtcagtgttg atggacagga tattaggacc 1380 ataaatgtaa ggtttctacg ggaaatcatt ggtgtggtga gtcaggaacc tgtattgttt 1440 gccaccacga tagctgaaaa cattcgctat ggccgtgaaa atgtcaccat ggatgagatt 1500 gagaaagctg tcaaggaagc caatgcctat gactttatca tgaaactgcc tcataaattt 1560 gacaccctgg ttggagagag aggggcccag ttgagtggtg ggcagaagca gaggatcgcc 1620 attgcacgtg ccctggttcg caaccccaag atcctcctgc tggatgaggc cacgtcagcc 1680 ttggacacag aaagcgaagc agtggttcag gtggctctgg ataaggccag aaaaggtcgg 1740 accaccattg tgatagctca tcgtttgtct acagttcgta atgctgacgt catcgctggt 1800 ttcgatgatg gagtcattgt ggagaaagga aatcatgatg aactcatgaa agagaaaggc 1860 atttacttca aacttgtcac aatgcagaca gcaggaaatg aagttgaatt agaaaatgca 1920 gctgatgaat ccaaaagtga aattgatgcc ttggaaatgt cttcaaatga ttcaagatcc 1980 agtctaataa gaaaaagatc aactcgtagg agtgtccgtg gatcacaagc ccaagacaga 2040 aagcttagta ccaaagaggc tctggatgaa agtatacctc cagtttcctt ttggaggatt 2100 atgaagctaa atttaactga atggccttat tttgttgttg gtgtattttg tgccattata 2160 aatggaggcc tgcaaccagc atttgcaata atattttcaa agattatagg ggtttttaca 2220 agaattgatg atcctgaaac aaaacgacag aatagtaact tgttttcact attgtttcta 2280 gcccttggaa ttatttcttt tattacattt ttccttcaag gtttcacatt tggcaaagct 2340 ggagagatcc tcaccaagcg gctccgatac atggttttcc gatccatgct cagacaggat 2400 gtgagttggt ttgatgaccc taaaaacacc actggagcat tgactaccag gctcgccaat 2460 gatgctgctc aagttaaagg ggctataggt tccaggcttg ctgtaattac ccagaatata 2520 gcaaatcttg ggacaggaat aattatatcc ttcatctatg gttggcaact aacactgtta 2580 ctcttagcaa ttgtacccat cattgcaata gcaggagttg ttgaaatgaa aatgttgtct 2640 ggacaagcac tgaaagataa gaaagaacta gaaggtgctg ggaagatcgc tactgaagca 2700 atagaaaact tccgaaccgt tgtttctttg actcaggagc agaagtttga acatatgtat 2760 gctcagagtt tgcaggtacc atacagaaac tctttgagga aagcacacat ctttggaatt 2820 acattttcct tcacccaggc aatgatgtat ttttcctatg ctggatgttt ccggtttgga 2880 gcctacttgg tggcacataa actcatgagc tttgaggatg ttctgttagt attttcagct 2940 gttgtctttg gtgccatggc cgtggggcaa gtcagttcat ttgctcctga ctatgccaaa 3000 gccaaaatat cagcagccca catcatcatg atcattgaaa aaaccccttt gattgacagc 3060 tacagcacgg aaggcctaat gccgaacaca ttggaaggaa atgtcacatt tggtgaagtt 3120 gtattcaact atcccacccg accggacatc ccagtgcttc agggactgag cctggaggtg 3180 aagaagggcc agacgctggc tctggtgggc agcagtggct gtgggaagag cacagtggtc 3240 cagctcctgg agcggttcta cgaccccttg gcagggaaag tgctgcttga tggcaaagaa 3300 ataaagcgac tgaatgttca gtggctccga gcacacctgg gcatcgtgtc ccaggagccc 3360 atcctgtttg actgcagcat tgctgagaac attgcctatg gagacaacag ccgggtggtg 3420 tcacaggaag agatcgtgag ggcagcaaag gaggccaaca tacatgcctt catcgagtca 3480 ctgcctaata aatatagcac taaagtagga gacaaaggaa ctcagctctc tggtggccag 3540 aaacaacgca ttgccatagc tcgtgccctt gttagacagc ctcatatttt gcttttggat 3600 gaagccacgt cagctctgga tacagaaagt gaaaaggttg tccaagaagc cctggacaaa 3660 gccagagaag gccgcacctg cattgtgatt gctcaccgcc tgtccaccat ccagaatgca 3720 gacttaatag tggtgtttca gaatggcaga gtcaaggagc atggcacgca tcagcagctg 3780 ctggcacaga aaggcatcta tttttcaatg gtcagtgtcc aggctggaac aaagcgccag 3840 tgaactctgg ttaactccac 3860 2 1280 PRT Homo sapiens 2 Met Asp Leu Glu Gly Asp Arg Asn Gly Gly Ala Lys Lys Lys Asn Phe 1 5 10 15 Phe Lys Leu Asn Asn Lys Ser Glu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Pro 20 25 30 Thr Val Ser Val Phe Ser Met Phe Arg Tyr Ser Asn Trp Leu Asp Lys 35 40 45 Leu Tyr Met Val Val Gly Thr Leu Ala Ala Ile Ile His Gly Ala Gly 50 55 60 Leu Pro Leu Met Met Leu Val Phe Gly Glu Met Thr Asp Ile Phe Ala 65 70 75 80 Asn Ala Gly Asn Leu Glu Asp Leu Met Ser Asn Ile Thr Asn Arg Ser 85 90 95 Asp Ile Asn Asp Thr Gly Phe Phe Met Asn Leu Glu Glu Asp Met Thr 100 105 110 Arg Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser Gly Ile Gly Ala Gly Val Leu Val Ala 115 120 125 Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg Gln Ile 130 135 140 His Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln Phe Phe His Ala Ile Met Arg Gln Glu Ile 145 150 155 160 Gly Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu Leu Asn Thr Arg Leu Thr 165 170 175 Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Glu Gly Ile Gly Asp Lys Ile Gly Met 180 185 190 Phe Phe Gln Ser Met Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr Gly Phe Ile Val Gly Phe 195 200 205 Thr Arg Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile Leu Ala Ile Ser Pro Val 210 215 220 Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala Val Trp Ala Lys Ile Leu Ser Ser Phe Thr 225 230 235 240 Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr Ala Lys Ala Gly Ala Val Ala Glu Glu 245 250 255 Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr Val Ile Ala Phe Gly Gly Gln Lys Lys 260 265 270 Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn Lys Asn Leu Glu Glu Ala Lys Arg Ile Gly 275 280 285 Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr Ala Asn Ile Ser Ile Gly Ala Ala Phe Leu 290 295 300 Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala Leu Ala Phe Trp Tyr Gly Thr Thr Leu 305 310 315 320 Val Leu Ser Gly Glu Tyr Ser Ile Gly Gln Val Leu Thr Val Phe Phe 325 330 335 Ser Val Leu Ile Gly Ala Phe Ser Val Gly Gln Ala Ser Pro Ser Ile 340 345 350 Glu Ala Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg Gly Ala Ala Tyr Glu Ile Phe Lys Ile 355 360 365 Ile Asp Asn Lys Pro Ser Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Lys Ser Gly His Lys 370 375 380 Pro Asp Asn Ile Lys Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe Arg Asn Val His Phe Ser 385 390 395 400 Tyr Pro Ser Arg Lys Glu Val Lys Ile Leu Lys Gly Leu Asn Leu Lys 405 410 415 Val Gln Ser Gly Gln Thr Val Ala Leu Val Gly Asn Ser Gly Cys Gly 420 425 430 Lys Ser Thr Thr Val Gln Leu Met Gln Arg Leu Tyr Asp Pro Thr Glu 435 440 445 Gly Met Val Ser Val Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile Arg Thr Ile Asn Val Arg 450 455 460 Phe Leu Arg Glu Ile Ile Gly Val Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Val Leu Phe 465 470 475 480 Ala Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr Gly Arg Glu Asn Val Thr 485 490 495 Met Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp Phe 500 505 510 Ile Met Lys Leu Pro His Lys Phe Asp Thr Leu Val Gly Glu Arg Gly 515 520 525 Ala Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala 530 535 540 Leu Val Arg Asn Pro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala 545 550 555 560 Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln Val Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala 565 570 575 Arg Lys Gly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr Val 580 585 590 Arg Asn Ala Asp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp Asp Gly Val Ile Val Glu 595 600 605 Lys Gly Asn His Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Lys 610 615 620 Leu Val Thr Met Gln Thr Ala Gly Asn Glu Val Glu Leu Glu Asn Ala 625 630 635 640 Ala Asp Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ile Asp Ala Leu Glu Met Ser Ser Asn 645 650 655 Asp Ser Arg Ser Ser Leu Ile Arg Lys Arg Ser Thr Arg Arg Ser Val 660 665 670 Arg Gly Ser Gln Ala Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu Ser Thr Lys Glu Ala Leu 675 680 685 Asp Glu Ser Ile Pro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp Arg Ile Met Lys Leu Asn 690 695 700 Leu Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly Val Phe Cys Ala Ile Ile 705 710 715 720 Asn Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala Phe Ala Ile Ile Phe Ser Lys Ile Ile 725 730 735 Gly Val Phe Thr Arg Ile Asp Asp Pro Glu Thr Lys Arg Gln Asn Ser 740 745 750 Asn Leu Phe Ser Leu Leu Phe Leu Ala Leu Gly Ile Ile Ser Phe Ile 755 760 765 Thr Phe Phe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly Glu Ile Leu 770 775 780 Thr Lys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg Ser Met Leu Arg Gln Asp 785 790 795 800 Val Ser Trp Phe Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala Leu Thr Thr 805 810 815 Arg Leu Ala Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys Gly Ala Ile Gly Ser Arg 820 825 830 Leu Ala Val Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr Gly Ile Ile 835 840 845 Ile Ser Phe Ile Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu Ala Ile 850 855 860 Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val Glu Met Lys Met Leu Ser 865 870 875 880 Gly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ala Gly Lys Ile 885 890 895 Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr Val Val Ser Leu Thr Gln 900 905 910 Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu His Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu Gln Val Pro Tyr 915 920 925 Arg Asn Ser Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe Gly Ile Thr Phe Ser Phe 930 935 940 Thr Gln Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala Gly Cys Phe Arg Phe Gly 945 950 955 960 Ala Tyr Leu Val Ala His Lys Leu Met Ser Phe Glu Asp Val Leu Leu 965 970 975 Val Phe Ser Ala Val Val Phe Gly Ala Met Ala Val Gly Gln Val Ser 980 985 990 Ser Phe Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Lys Ile Ser Ala Ala His Ile 995 1000 1005 Ile Met Ile Ile Glu Lys Thr Pro Leu Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Thr 1010 1015 1020 Glu Gly Leu Met Pro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn Val Thr Phe Gly 1025 1030 1035 Glu Val Val Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile Pro Val Leu 1040 1045 1050 Gln Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu Ala Leu 1055 1060 1065 Val Gly Ser Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu Leu 1070 1075 1080 Glu Arg Phe Tyr Asp Pro Leu Ala Gly Lys Val Leu Leu Asp Gly 1085 1090 1095 Lys Glu Ile Lys Arg Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala His Leu 1100 1105 1110 Gly Ile Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser Ile Ala 1115 1120 1125 Glu Asn Ile Ala Tyr Gly Asp Asn Ser Arg Val Val Ser Gln Glu 1130 1135 1140 Glu Ile Val Arg Ala Ala Lys Glu Ala Asn Ile His Ala Phe Ile 1145 1150 1155 Glu Ser Leu Pro Asn Lys Tyr Ser Thr Lys Val Gly Asp Lys Gly 1160 1165 1170 Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg 1175 1180 1185 Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro His Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr 1190 1195 1200 Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Lys Val Val Gln Glu Ala Leu 1205 1210 1215 Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr Cys Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg 1220 1225 1230 Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu Ile Val Val Phe Gln Asn 1235 1240 1245 Gly Arg Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr His Gln Gln Leu Leu Ala Gln 1250 1255 1260 Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met Val Ser Val Gln Ala Gly Thr Lys 1265 1270 1275 Arg Gln 1280 3 3860 DNA homo sapiens 3 atggatcttg aaggggaccg caatggagga gcaaagaaga agaacttttt taaactgaac 60 aataaaagtg aaaaagataa gaaggaaaag aaaccaactg tcagtgtatt ttcaatgttt 120 cgctattcaa attggcttga caagttgtat atggtggtgg gaactttggc tgccatcatc 180 catggggctg gacttcctct catgatgctg gtgtttggag aaatgacaga tatctttgca 240 aatgcaggaa atttagaaga tctgatgtca aacatcacta atagaagtga tatcaatgat 300 acagggttct tcatgaatct ggaggaagac atgaccagat atgcctatta ttacagtgga 360 attggtgctg gggtgctggt tgctgcttac attcaggttt cattttggtg cctggcagct 420 ggaagacaaa tacacaaaat tagaaaacag ttttttcatg ctataatgcg acaggagata 480 ggctggtttg atgtgcacga tgttggggag cttaacaccc gacttacaga tgatgtctct 540 aagattaatg aagttattgg tgacaaaatt ggaatgttct ttcagtcaat ggcaacattt 600 ttcactgggt ttatagtagg atttacacgt ggttggaagc taacccttgt gattttggcc 660 atcagtcctg ttcttggact gtcagctgct gtctgggcaa agatactatc ttcatttact 720 gataaagaac tcttagcgta tgcaaaagct ggagcagtag ctgaagaggt cttggcagca 780 attagaactg tgattgcatt tggaggacaa aagaaagaac ttgaaaggta caacaaaaat 840 ttagaagaag ctaaaagaat tgggataaag aaagctatta cagccaatat ttctataggt 900 gctgctttcc tgctgatcta tgcatcttat gctctggcct tctggtatgg gaccaccttg 960 gtcctctcag gggaatattc tattggacaa gtactcactg tattcttttc tgtattaatt 1020 ggggctttta gtgttggaca ggcatctcca agcattgaag catttgcaaa tgcaagagga 1080 gcagcttatg aaatcttcaa gataattgat aataagccaa gtattgacag ctattcgaag 1140 agtgggcaca aaccagataa tattaaggga aatttggaat tcagaaatgt tcacttcagt 1200 tacccatctc gaaaagaagt taagatcttg aagggcctga acctgaaggt gcagagtggg 1260 cagacggtgg ccctggttgg aaacagtggc tgtgggaaga gcacaacagt ccagctgatg 1320 cagaggctct atgaccccac agaggggatg gtcagtgttg atggacagga tattaggacc 1380 ataaatgtaa ggtttctacg ggaaatcatt ggtgtggtga gtcaggaacc tgtattgttt 1440 gccaccacga tagctgaaaa cattcgctat ggccgtgaaa atgtcaccat ggatgagatt 1500 gagaaagctg tcaaggaagc caatgcctat gactttatca tgaaactgcc tcataaattt 1560 gacaccctgg ttggagagag aggggcccag ttgagtggtg ggcagaagca gaggatcgcc 1620 attgcacgtg ccctggttcg caaccccaag atcctcctgc tggatgaggc cacgtcagcc 1680 ttggacacag aaagcgaagc agtggttcag gtggctctgg ataaggccag aaaaggtcgg 1740 accaccattg tgatagctca tcgtttgtct acagttcgta atgctgacgt catcgctggt 1800 ttcgatgatg gagtcattgt ggagaaagga aatcatgatg aactcatgaa agagaaaggc 1860 atttacttca aacttgtcac aatgcagaca gcaggaaatg aagttgaatt agaaaatgca 1920 gctgatgaat ccaaaagtga aattgatgcc ttggaaatgt cttcaaatga ttcaagatcc 1980 agtctaataa gaaaaagatc aactcgtagg agtgtccgtg gatcacaagc ccaagacaga 2040 aagcttagta ccaaagaggc tctggatgaa agtatacctc cagtttcctt ttggaggatt 2100 atgaagctaa atttaactga atggccttat tttgttgttg gtgtattttg tgccattata 2160 aatggaggcc tgcaaccagc atttgcaata atattttcaa agattatagg ggtttttaca 2220 agaattgatg atcctgaaac aaaacgacag aatagtaact tgttttcact attgtttcta 2280 gcccttggaa ttatttcttt tattacattt ttccttcaag gtttcacatt tggcaaagct 2340 ggagagatcc tcaccaagcg gctccgatac atggttttcc gatccatgct cagacaggat 2400 gtgagttggt ttgatgaccc taaaaacacc actggagcat tgactaccag gctcgccaat 2460 gatgctgctc aagttaaagg ggctataggt tccaggcttg ctgtaattac ccagaatata 2520 gcaaatcttg ggacaggaat aattatatcc ttcatctatg gttggcaact aacactgtta 2580 ctcttagcaa ttgtacccat cattgcaata gcaggagttg ttgaaatgaa aatgttgtct 2640 ggacaagcac tgaaagataa gaaagaacta gaaggtgctg ggaagatcgc tactgaagca 2700 atagaaaact tccgaaccgt tgtttctttg actcaggagc agaagtttga acatatgtat 2760 gctcagagtt tgcaggtacc atacagaaac tctttgagga aagcacacat ctttggaatt 2820 acattttcct tcacccaggc aatgatgtat ttttcctatg ctggatgttt ccggtttgga 2880 gcctacttgg tggcacataa actcatgagc tttgaggatg ttctgttagt attttcagct 2940 gttgtctttg gtgccatggc cgtggggcaa gtcagttcat ttgctcctga ctatgccaaa 3000 gccaaaatat cagcagccca catcatcatg atcattgaaa aaaccccttt gattgacagc 3060 tacagcacgg aaggcctaat gccgaacaca ttggaaggaa atgtcacatt tggtgaagtt 3120 gtattcaact atcccacccg accggacatc ccagtgcttc agggactgag cctggaggtg 3180 aagaagggcc agacgctggc tctggtgggc agcagtggct gtgggaagag cacagtggtc 3240 cagctcctgg agcggttcta cgaccccttg gcagggaaag tgctgcttga tggcaaagaa 3300 ataaagcgac tgaatgttca gtggctccga gcacacctgg gcatcgtgtc ccaggagccc 3360 atcctgtttg actgcagcat tgctgagaac attgcctatg gagacaacag ccgggtggtg 3420 tcacaggaag agatcgtgag ggcagcaaag gaggccaaca tacatgcctt catcgagtca 3480 ctgcctaata aatatagcac taaagtagga gacaaaggaa ctcagctctc tggtggccag 3540 aaacaacgca ttgccatagc tcgtgccctt gttagacagc ctcatatttt gcttttggat 3600 gaagccacgt cagctctgga tacagaaagt gaaaaggttg tccaagaagc cctggacaaa 3660 gccagagaag gccgcacctg cattgtgatt gctcaccgcc tgtccaccat ccagaatgca 3720 gacttaatag tggtgtttca gaatggcaga gtcaaggagc atggcacgca tcagcagctg 3780 ctggcacaga aaggcatcta tttttcaatg gtcagtgtcc aggctggaac aaagcgccag 3840 tgaactctgg ttaactccac 3860 4 1280 PRT Homo sapiens 4 Met Asp Leu Glu Gly Asp Arg Asn Gly Gly Ala Lys Lys Lys Asn Phe 1 5 10 15 Phe Lys Leu Asn Asn Lys Ser Glu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Pro 20 25 30 Thr Val Ser Val Phe Ser Met Phe Arg Tyr Ser Asn Trp Leu Asp Lys 35 40 45 Leu Tyr Met Val Val Gly Thr Leu Ala Ala Ile Ile His Gly Ala Gly 50 55 60 Leu Pro Leu Met Met Leu Val Phe Gly Glu Met Thr Asp Ile Phe Ala 65 70 75 80 Asn Ala Gly Asn Leu Glu Asp Leu Met Ser Asn Ile Thr Asn Arg Ser 85 90 95 Asp Ile Asn Asp Thr Gly Phe Phe Met Asn Leu Glu Glu Asp Met Thr 100 105 110 Arg Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser Gly Ile Gly Ala Gly Val Leu Val Ala 115 120 125 Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg Gln Ile 130 135 140 His Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln Phe Phe His Ala Ile Met Arg Gln Glu Ile 145 150 155 160 Gly Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu Leu Asn Thr Arg Leu Thr 165 170 175 Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Glu Val Ile Gly Asp Lys Ile Gly Met 180 185 190 Phe Phe Gln Ser Met Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr Gly Phe Ile Val Gly Phe 195 200 205 Thr Arg Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile Leu Ala Ile Ser Pro Val 210 215 220 Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala Val Trp Ala Lys Ile Leu Ser Ser Phe Thr 225 230 235 240 Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr Ala Lys Ala Gly Ala Val Ala Glu Glu 245 250 255 Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr Val Ile Ala Phe Gly Gly Gln Lys Lys 260 265 270 Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn Lys Asn Leu Glu Glu Ala Lys Arg Ile Gly 275 280 285 Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr Ala Asn Ile Ser Ile Gly Ala Ala Phe Leu 290 295 300 Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala Leu Ala Phe Trp Tyr Gly Thr Thr Leu 305 310 315 320 Val Leu Ser Gly Glu Tyr Ser Ile Gly Gln Val Leu Thr Val Phe Phe 325 330 335 Ser Val Leu Ile Gly Ala Phe Ser Val Gly Gln Ala Ser Pro Ser Ile 340 345 350 Glu Ala Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg Gly Ala Ala Tyr Glu Ile Phe Lys Ile 355 360 365 Ile Asp Asn Lys Pro Ser Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Lys Ser Gly His Lys 370 375 380 Pro Asp Asn Ile Lys Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe Arg Asn Val His Phe Ser 385 390 395 400 Tyr Pro Ser Arg Lys Glu Val Lys Ile Leu Lys Gly Leu Asn Leu Lys 405 410 415 Val Gln Ser Gly Gln Thr Val Ala Leu Val Gly Asn Ser Gly Cys Gly 420 425 430 Lys Ser Thr Thr Val Gln Leu Met Gln Arg Leu Tyr Asp Pro Thr Glu 435 440 445 Gly Met Val Ser Val Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile Arg Thr Ile Asn Val Arg 450 455 460 Phe Leu Arg Glu Ile Ile Gly Val Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Val Leu Phe 465 470 475 480 Ala Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr Gly Arg Glu Asn Val Thr 485 490 495 Met Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp Phe 500 505 510 Ile Met Lys Leu Pro His Lys Phe Asp Thr Leu Val Gly Glu Arg Gly 515 520 525 Ala Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala 530 535 540 Leu Val Arg Asn Pro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala 545 550 555 560 Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln Val Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala 565 570 575 Arg Lys Gly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr Val 580 585 590 Arg Asn Ala Asp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp Asp Gly Val Ile Val Glu 595 600 605 Lys Gly Asn His Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Lys 610 615 620 Leu Val Thr Met Gln Thr Ala Gly Asn Glu Val Glu Leu Glu Asn Ala 625 630 635 640 Ala Asp Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ile Asp Ala Leu Glu Met Ser Ser Asn 645 650 655 Asp Ser Arg Ser Ser Leu Ile Arg Lys Arg Ser Thr Arg Arg Ser Val 660 665 670 Arg Gly Ser Gln Ala Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu Ser Thr Lys Glu Ala Leu 675 680 685 Asp Glu Ser Ile Pro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp Arg Ile Met Lys Leu Asn 690 695 700 Leu Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly Val Phe Cys Ala Ile Ile 705 710 715 720 Asn Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala Phe Ala Ile Ile Phe Ser Lys Ile Ile 725 730 735 Gly Val Phe Thr Arg Ile Asp Asp Pro Glu Thr Lys Arg Gln Asn Ser 740 745 750 Asn Leu Phe Ser Leu Leu Phe Leu Ala Leu Gly Ile Ile Ser Phe Ile 755 760 765 Thr Phe Phe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly Glu Ile Leu 770 775 780 Thr Lys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg Ser Met Leu Arg Gln Asp 785 790 795 800 Val Ser Trp Phe Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala Leu Thr Thr 805 810 815 Arg Leu Ala Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys Gly Ala Ile Gly Ser Arg 820 825 830 Leu Ala Val Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr Gly Ile Ile 835 840 845 Ile Ser Phe Ile Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu Ala Ile 850 855 860 Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val Glu Met Lys Met Leu Ser 865 870 875 880 Gly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ala Gly Lys Ile 885 890 895 Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr Val Val Ser Leu Thr Gln 900 905 910 Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu His Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu Gln Val Pro Tyr 915 920 925 Arg Asn Ser Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe Gly Ile Thr Phe Ser Phe 930 935 940 Thr Gln Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala Gly Cys Phe Arg Phe Gly 945 950 955 960 Ala Tyr Leu Val Ala His Lys Leu Met Ser Phe Glu Asp Val Leu Leu 965 970 975 Val Phe Ser Ala Val Val Phe Gly Ala Met Ala Val Gly Gln Val Ser 980 985 990 Ser Phe Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Lys Ile Ser Ala Ala His Ile 995 1000 1005 Ile Met Ile Ile Glu Lys Thr Pro Leu Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Thr 1010 1015 1020 Glu Gly Leu Met Pro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn Val Thr Phe Gly 1025 1030 1035 Glu Val Val Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile Pro Val Leu 1040 1045 1050 Gln Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu Ala Leu 1055 1060 1065 Val Gly Ser Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu Leu 1070 1075 1080 Glu Arg Phe Tyr Asp Pro Leu Ala Gly Lys Val Leu Leu Asp Gly 1085 1090 1095 Lys Glu Ile Lys Arg Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala His Leu 1100 1105 1110 Gly Ile Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser Ile Ala 1115 1120 1125 Glu Asn Ile Ala Tyr Gly Asp Asn Ser Arg Val Val Ser Gln Glu 1130 1135 1140 Glu Ile Val Arg Ala Ala Lys Glu Ala Asn Ile His Ala Phe Ile 1145 1150 1155 Glu Ser Leu Pro Asn Lys Tyr Ser Thr Lys Val Gly Asp Lys Gly 1160 1165 1170 Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg 1175 1180 1185 Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro His Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr 1190 1195 1200 Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Lys Val Val Gln Glu Ala Leu 1205 1210 1215 Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr Cys Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg 1220 1225 1230 Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu Ile Val Val Phe Gln Asn 1235 1240 1245 Gly Arg Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr His Gln Gln Leu Leu Ala Gln 1250 1255 1260 Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met Val Ser Val Gln Ala Gly Thr Lys 1265 1270 1275 Arg Gln 1280 5 4189 DNA Mus musculus 5 atggagtttg aagagaacct taagggaaga gcagacaaga acttctcgaa gatgggcaaa 60 aagagtaaaa aggagaagaa agaaaagaaa cctgctgttg gcgtatttgg gatgtttcgc 120 tatgcagatt ggctggacaa gctgtgcatg attctgggaa ctctcgctgc tattatccat 180 ggaacattac ttcccctctt gatgctggtg tttggaaaca tgacagatag ttttacaaaa 240 gcagaagcca gtattctgcc aagcattact aatcaaagtg gacccaacag tactctgatc 300 atcagcaaca gcagtctgga ggaagagatg gccatatacg cctactatta caccgggatt 360 ggtgctggtg tgctcatagt tgcctacatc caggtttcac tttggtgcct ggcagctgga 420 agacagatac acaagattag gcagaagttt ttccatgcta taatgaatca ggagataggc 480 tggtttgatg tgcatgatgt tggggagctc aacacccggc tcacagatga tgtctccaaa 540 attaatgacg gaattggtga caaaattggg atgttttttc agtccataac cacattttta 600 gccggtttta tcataggatt tataagtggt tggaagctaa cccttgtcat tttggctgtc 660 agccctctta ttggattgtc atctgctttg tgggcaaagg tattgacttc atttactaat 720 aaggaactcc aggcttatgc aaaagctgga gcagttgctg aagaagtctt agcagccatc 780 agaactgtga ttgcctttgg aggacaacag aaggaacttg aaaggtacaa taaaaattta 840 gaagaagcta aaaatgttgg cataaagaaa gctatcacag ccagcatttc gataggcatt 900 gcctacctgt tggtctatgc atcatatgca ctggcattct ggtatgggac atccttggtc 960 ctctcaaatg aatattctat tggagaagtg cttactgtct tcttctctat tttgttgggg 1020 acttttagta ttggacactt ggccccaaac atagaagcct ttgcaaacgc acgaggggca 1080 gcctttgaaa tcttcaagat aattgataac gagccaagca ttgacagctt ctcaacaaag 1140 ggctacaaac cagacagtat aatgggaaac ttagagttta aaaatgttca cttcaactac 1200 ccatcgagaa gcgaagttca gatcttgaag ggcctcaatc tgaaggtgaa gagcggacag 1260 acggtggcct tggttggcaa cagtggctgt ggaaaaagca caactgtcca gctgatgcag 1320 aggctctacg accccctgga gggcgtggtc agtatcgacg gacaagacat cagaaccatc 1380 aatgtgaggt atctgaggga gatcattggt gtggtgagtc aggaacctgt gctgtttgcc 1440 accacgatcg ccgagaacat tcgctatggc cgagaagatg tcaccatgga tgagattgag 1500 aaagctgtca aggaagccaa tgcctatgac ttcatcatga aactgcccca ccaatttgac 1560 accctggttg gtgagagagg ggcgcagctg agtgggggac agaaacagag aatcgccatt 1620 gcccgggccc tggtccgcaa tcccaagatc cttttgttgg acgaggccac ctcagccctg 1680 gatacagaaa gtgaagctgt ggtgcaggcc gcactggata aggctagaga aggccggacc 1740 accattgtga tagctcatcg cttgtctaca gttcgtaatg ctgacgtcat tgctggtttt 1800 gatggtggtg tcattgtgga gcaaggaaat catgatgagc tcatgagaga aaagggcatt 1860 tacttcaaac ttgtcatgac acagactaga ggaaatgaaa ttgaaccagg aaataatgct 1920 tatggatccc agagtgacac tgatgcttct gaactgactt cagaagaatc caaatcacct 1980 ttaataagga gatcaattta cagaagtgtc cacagaaagc aagaccaaga gagaagactt 2040 agtatgaaag aggctgtgga tgaagatgtg cctctggttt ccttttggcg gatcctaaat 2100 ctaaatctaa gtgaatggcc ttatttactt gttggcgtac tttgcgctgt tataaatggg 2160 tgcatacaac cagtgtttgc catagtattt tcaaggattg taggggtttt ttcaagagat 2220 gatgaccatg aaactaaacg acagaattgt aatttgtttt ccctgttctt tctggttatg 2280 gggctgattt cttttgttac atatttcttt cagggcttca catttggcaa agccggagag 2340 atcctcacca agcgagtccg atacatggtt ttcaaatcca tgctgagaca ggatataagc 2400 tggttcgatg accataagaa cagcactggc tcactgacca ccaggctcgc cagtgatgct 2460 tctagtgtta aaggggcgat gggcgccagg cttgctgtag ttacccagaa tgtagcaaac 2520 ctcgggacag gagtcatcct ctccttagtc tatggctggc agctgacact tctacttgta 2580 gtaattatac cgctcattgt attgggcgga attattgaaa tgaagctgtt gtctggccaa 2640 gccttgaagg acaagaaaca gcttgagatc tctgggaaga ttgctacaga agcaattgaa 2700 aacttccgca ctattgtctc tttgactcgg gagcagaagt ttgaaaccat gtatgcccag 2760 agcttgcagg taccatacag aaatgcgatg aagaaagcac acgtgtttgg gatcacgttc 2820 tccttcaccc aggccatgat gtatttttct tatgctgctt gtttccggtt cggtgcctac 2880 ttggtggcac aacaactcat gacttttgaa aatgttatgt tggtattttc tgctgttgtc 2940 tttggtgcca tggcagctgg gaatactagt tcatttgctc ctgactatgc gaaagccaaa 3000 gtatcagcat ctcatatcat caggatcatt gagaaaaccc ctgagattga cagctacagc 3060 acagagggct tgaagcctac tctgttagaa ggaaatgtaa aatttaatgg agtccagttt 3120 aactatccca cccgacccaa catcccagtg cttcaggggc tgagcctcga ggtgaagaag 3180 ggccagacgt tggccctggt gggcagcagt ggctgtggga agagcacagt ggtccagctg 3240 ctcgagcgct tctacgaccc catggctgga tcagtgtttc tagatggcaa agaaataaag 3300 caactgaatg tccagtggct ccgagctcac cttggcattg tgtcccagga gcccattctc 3360 tttgactgca gcattgcaga gaacatcgcc tatggagaca acagccgggc cgtgtctcat 3420 gaggagattg tgagggcagc caaggaggcc aacatccacc agttcatcga ctcactgcct 3480 gataaataca acaccagagt aggagacaaa ggcactcagc tgtcgggtgg gcagaagcag 3540 cgcatcgcca tcgcacgtgc cctcgtcaga cagcctcaca ttttacttct ggacgaagca 3600 acatcagctc tggatacaga aagtgaaaag gttgtccagg aagcgctgga caaagccagg 3660 gaaggccgca cctgcattgt gatcgctcac cgcctgtcca ccatccagaa cgcggacttg 3720 atcgtggtga ttgagaacgg caaagtcaag gagcacggca cccaccagca gctgctggcg 3780 cagaagggca tctacttctc aatggtccag gctggagcaa agcgctcatg agctgtgact 3840 atctgaggtg ctaagtattt ttaatattgg tgtttaaaca tggcaccaaa ccaaagttaa 3900 aaggcaaggg ctgttaaagg taactccatc aagatgagaa gccttccgag actttgtaat 3960 taaatgaacc aaaatcggaa acaaacaaac aaacaaacaa acaagccata gttaaacagg 4020 gccatgtttt taattgcatt acgtgattca taagagaaca tatagttttt taaaataaaa 4080 tgtataattt tgtttcagtt tttaatttct accctacttt cttaaatgat tataaagatt 4140 gtaaaaagca ctatttctta aattgcctat aaaaattaaa ttttcatat 4189 6 1276 PRT Mus musculus 6 Met Glu Phe Glu Glu Asn Leu Lys Gly Arg Ala Asp Lys Asn Phe Ser 1 5 10 15 Lys Met Gly Lys Lys Ser Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Pro Ala 20 25 30 Val Gly Val Phe Gly Met Phe Arg Tyr Ala Asp Trp Leu Asp Lys Leu 35 40 45 Cys Met Ile Leu Gly Thr Leu Ala Ala Ile Ile His Gly Thr Leu Leu 50 55 60 Pro Leu Leu Met Leu Val Phe Gly Asn Met Thr Asp Ser Phe Thr Lys 65 70 75 80 Ala Glu Ala Ser Ile Leu Pro Ser Ile Thr Asn Gln Ser Gly Pro Asn 85 90 95 Ser Thr Leu Ile Ile Ser Asn Ser Ser Leu Glu Glu Glu Met Ala Ile 100 105 110 Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Thr Gly Ile Gly Ala Gly Val Leu Ile Val Ala 115 120 125 Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Leu Trp Cys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg Gln Ile His 130 135 140 Lys Ile Arg Gln Lys Phe Phe His Ala Ile Met Asn Gln Glu Ile Gly 145 150 155 160 Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu Leu Asn Thr Arg Leu Thr Asp 165 170 175 Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Asp Gly Ile Gly Asp Lys Ile Gly Met Phe 180 185 190 Phe Gln Ser Ile Thr Thr Phe Leu Ala Gly Phe Ile Ile Gly Phe Ile 195 200 205 Ser Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile Leu Ala Val Ser Pro Leu Ile 210 215 220 Gly Leu Ser Ser Ala Leu Trp Ala Lys Val Leu Thr Ser Phe Thr Asn 225 230 235 240 Lys Glu Leu Gln Ala Tyr Ala Lys Ala Gly Ala Val Ala Glu Glu Val 245 250 255 Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr Val Ile Ala Phe Gly Gly Gln Gln Lys Glu 260 265 270 Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn Lys Asn Leu Glu Glu Ala Lys Asn Val Gly Ile 275 280 285 Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr Ala Ser Ile Ser Ile Gly Ile Ala Tyr Leu Leu 290 295 300 Val Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala Leu Ala Phe Trp Tyr Gly Thr Ser Leu Val 305 310 315 320 Leu Ser Asn Glu Tyr Ser Ile Gly Glu Val Leu Thr Val Phe Phe Ser 325 330 335 Ile Leu Leu Gly Thr Phe Ser Ile Gly His Leu Ala Pro Asn Ile Glu 340 345 350 Ala Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg Gly Ala Ala Phe Glu Ile Phe Lys Ile Ile 355 360 365 Asp Asn Glu Pro Ser Ile Asp Ser Phe Ser Thr Lys Gly Tyr Lys Pro 370 375 380 Asp Ser Ile Met Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe Lys Asn Val His Phe Asn Tyr 385 390 395 400 Pro Ser Arg Ser Glu Val Gln Ile Leu Lys Gly Leu Asn Leu Lys Val 405 410 415 Lys Ser Gly Gln Thr Val Ala Leu Val Gly Asn Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys 420 425 430 Ser Thr Thr Val Gln Leu Met Gln Arg Leu Tyr Asp Pro Leu Glu Gly 435 440 445 Val Val Ser Ile Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile Arg Thr Ile Asn Val Arg Tyr 450 455 460 Leu Arg Glu Ile Ile Gly Val Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Val Leu Phe Ala 465 470 475 480 Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr Gly Arg Glu Asp Val Thr Met 485 490 495 Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp Phe Ile 500 505 510 Met Lys Leu Pro His Gln Phe Asp Thr Leu Val Gly Glu Arg Gly Ala 515 520 525 Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu 530 535 540 Val Arg Asn Pro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu 545 550 555 560 Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln Ala Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg 565 570 575 Glu Gly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr Val Arg 580 585 590 Asn Ala Asp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp Gly Gly Val Ile Val Glu Gln 595 600 605 Gly Asn His Asp Glu Leu Met Arg Glu Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Lys Leu 610 615 620 Val Met Thr Gln Thr Arg Gly Asn Glu Ile Glu Pro Gly Asn Asn Ala 625 630 635 640 Tyr Gly Ser Gln Ser Asp Thr Asp Ala Ser Glu Leu Thr Ser Glu Glu 645 650 655 Ser Lys Ser Pro Leu Ile Arg Arg Ser Ile Tyr Arg Ser Val His Arg 660 665 670 Lys Gln Asp Gln Glu Arg Arg Leu Ser Met Lys Glu Ala Val Asp Glu 675 680 685 Asp Val Pro Leu Val Ser Phe Trp Arg Ile Leu Asn Leu Asn Leu Ser 690 695 700 Glu Trp Pro Tyr Leu Leu Val Gly Val Leu Cys Ala Val Ile Asn Gly 705 710 715 720 Cys Ile Gln Pro Val Phe Ala Ile Val Phe Ser Arg Ile Val Gly Val 725 730 735 Phe Ser Arg Asp Asp Asp His Glu Thr Lys Arg Gln Asn Cys Asn Leu 740 745 750 Phe Ser Leu Phe Phe Leu Val Met Gly Leu Ile Ser Phe Val Thr Tyr 755 760 765 Phe Phe Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly Glu Ile Leu Thr Lys 770 775 780 Arg Val Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Lys Ser Met Leu Arg Gln Asp Ile Ser 785 790 795 800 Trp Phe Asp Asp His Lys Asn Ser Thr Gly Ser Leu Thr Thr Arg Leu 805 810 815 Ala Ser Asp Ala Ser Ser Val Lys Gly Ala Met Gly Ala Arg Leu Ala 820 825 830 Val Val Thr Gln Asn Val Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr Gly Val Ile Leu Ser 835 840 845 Leu Val Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu Val Val Ile Ile Pro 850 855 860 Leu Ile Val Leu Gly Gly Ile Ile Glu Met Lys Leu Leu Ser Gly Gln 865 870 875 880 Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Gln Leu Glu Ile Ser Gly Lys Ile Ala Thr 885 890 895 Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr Ile Val Ser Leu Thr Arg Glu Gln 900 905 910 Lys Phe Glu Thr Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu Gln Val Pro Tyr Arg Asn 915 920 925 Ala Met Lys Lys Ala His Val Phe Gly Ile Thr Phe Ser Phe Thr Gln 930 935 940 Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala Ala Cys Phe Arg Phe Gly Ala Tyr 945 950 955 960 Leu Val Ala Gln Gln Leu Met Thr Phe Glu Asn Val Met Leu Val Phe 965 970 975 Ser Ala Val Val Phe Gly Ala Met Ala Ala Gly Asn Thr Ser Ser Phe 980 985 990 Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Lys Val Ser Ala Ser His Ile Ile Arg 995 1000 1005 Ile Ile Glu Lys Thr Pro Glu Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Thr Glu Gly 1010 1015 1020 Leu Lys Pro Thr Leu Leu Glu Gly Asn Val Lys Phe Asn Gly Val 1025 1030 1035 Gln Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asn Ile Pro Val Leu Gln Gly 1040 1045 1050 Leu Ser Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu Ala Leu Val Gly 1055 1060 1065 Ser Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu Leu Glu Arg 1070 1075 1080 Phe Tyr Asp Pro Met Ala Gly Ser Val Phe Leu Asp Gly Lys Glu 1085 1090 1095 Ile Lys Gln Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala His Leu Gly Ile 1100 1105 1110 Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser Ile Ala Glu Asn 1115 1120 1125 Ile Ala Tyr Gly Asp Asn Ser Arg Ala Val Ser His Glu Glu Ile 1130 1135 1140 Val Arg Ala Ala Lys Glu Ala Asn Ile His Gln Phe Ile Asp Ser 1145 1150 1155 Leu Pro Asp Lys Tyr Asn Thr Arg Val Gly Asp Lys Gly Thr Gln 1160 1165 1170 Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu 1175 1180 1185 Val Arg Gln Pro His Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala 1190 1195 1200 Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Lys Val Val Gln Glu Ala Leu Asp Lys 1205 1210 1215 Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr Cys Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser 1220 1225 1230 Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu Ile Val Val Ile Glu Asn Gly Lys 1235 1240 1245 Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr His Gln Gln Leu Leu Ala Gln Lys Gly 1250 1255 1260 Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met Val Gln Ala Gly Ala Lys Arg Ser 1265 1270 1275 7 4788 DNA Mus musculus 7 atggaacttg aagaggacct taagggaaga gcagacaaga acttctcaaa gatgggcaaa 60 aagagtaaaa aggagaagaa agaaaagaaa ccagcagtca gtgtgcttac aatgtttcgt 120 tatgcaggtt ggctagacag gttgtacatg ctggtgggaa ctctggctgc tattatccat 180 ggagtggcgc tcccacttat gatgctgatc tttggtgaca tgacagatag ctttgcaagt 240 gtaggaaacg tctctaaaaa cagtactaat atgagtgagg ccgataaaag agccatgttt 300 gccaaactgg aggaagaaat gaccacgtac gcctactatt acaccgggat tggtgctggt 360 gtgctcatag ttgcctacat ccaggtttca ttttggtgcc tggcagctgg aagacagata 420 cacaagatca ggcagaagtt ttttcatgct ataatgaatc aggagatagg ctggtttgat 480 gtgcatgacg ttggggagct caacacccgg ctcacagatg atgtttccaa aattaatgaa 540 ggaattggtg acaaaatcgg aatgttcttc caggcaatgg caacattttt tggtggtttt 600 ataataggat ttacccgtgg ctggaagcta acccttgtga ttttggccat cagccctgtt 660 cttggactgt cagctggtat ttgggcaaag atattgtctt catttactga taaggaactc 720 catgcttatg caaaagctgg agcagttgct gaagaagtct tagcagccat cagaactgtg 780 attgcgtttg gaggacaaaa gaaggaactt gaaaggtaca ataacaactt ggaagaagct 840 aaaaggctgg ggataaagaa agctatcacg gccaacatct ccatgggtgc agcttttctc 900 cttatctatg catcatatgc tctggcattc tggtatggga cttccttggt catctccaaa 960 gaatactcta ttggacaagt gctcactgtc ttcttttccg tgttaattgg agcattcagt 1020 gttggacagg catctccaaa tattgaagcc ttcgccaatg cacgaggagc agcttatgaa 1080 gtcttcaaaa taattgataa taagcccagt atagacagct tctcaaagag tgggcacaaa 1140 ccagacaaca tacaaggaaa tctggaattt aagaatattc acttcagtta cccatctcga 1200 aaagaagttc agatcttgaa gggcctcaat ctgaaggtga agagcggaca gacggtggcc 1260 ctggttggca acagtggctg tggaaaaagc acaactgtcc agctgatgca aaggctctac 1320 gaccccctag atggcatggt cagtatcgac ggacaggaca tcagaaccat caatgtgagg 1380 tatctgaggg agatcattgg tgtggtgagt caggaacctg tgctgtttgc caccacgatc 1440 gccgagaaca ttcgctatgg ccgagaagat gtcaccatgg atgagattga gaaagctgtc 1500 aaggaagcca atgcctatga cttcatcatg aaactgcccc accaatttga caccctggtt 1560 ggtgagagag gggcgcacgt gagtggggga cagaaacaga gaatcgccat tgcccgggcc 1620 ctggtccgca atcccaagat ccttttgttg gacgaggcca cctcagccct ggatacagaa 1680 agtgaagctg tggttcaggc cgcactggat aaggctagag aaggccggac caccattgtg 1740 atagctcatc gcttgtctac cgttcgtaat gctgacgtca ttgctggttt tgatggtggt 1800 gtcattgtgg agcaaggaaa tcatgatgag ctcatgagag aaaagggcat ttacttcaaa 1860 cttgtcatga cacagacagc aggaaatgaa attgaattag gaaatgaagc ttgtaaatct 1920 aaggatgaaa ttgataattt agacatgtct tcaaaagatt caggatccag tctaataaga 1980 agaagatcaa ctcgcaaaag catctgtgga ccacatgacc aagacaggaa gcttagtacc 2040 aaagaggccc tggatgaaga tgtacctcca gcttcctttt ggcggatcct gaagttgaat 2100 tcaactgaat ggccttattt tgtggttggt atattctgtg ccataataaa tggaggctta 2160 cagccagcat tctccgtaat attttcaaaa gttgtagggg tttttacaaa tggtggcccc 2220 cctgaaaccc agcggcagaa cagcaacttg ttttccttgt tgtttctgat ccttgggatc 2280 atttctttca ttacattttt tcttcagggc ttcacatttg gcaaagctgg agagatcctc 2340 accaagcgac tccgatacat ggttttcaaa tccatgctga gacaggatgt gagctggttt 2400 gatgacccta aaaacaccac cggagcactg accaccaggc tcgccaacga tgctgctcaa 2460 gtgaaagggg ctacagggtc taggcttgct gtgattttcc agaacatagc aaatcttggg 2520 acaggaatca tcatatccct aatctatggc tggcaactaa cacttttact cttagcaatt 2580 gtacccatca ttgcgatagc tggagtggtt gaaatgaaaa tgttgtctgg acaagcactg 2640 aaagataaga aggaactaga aggttctgga aagattgcta cggaagcaat tgaaaacttc 2700 cgcactgttg tctctttgac tcgggagcag aagtttgaaa ccatgtatgc ccagagcttg 2760 cagataccat acagaaatgc gatgaagaaa gcacacgtgt ttgggatcac gttctccttc 2820 acccaggcca tgatgtattt ttcttatgct gcttgtttcc ggttcggtgc ctacttggtg 2880 acacaacaac tcatgacttt tgaaaatgtt ctgttagtat tctcagctat tgtctttggt 2940 gccatggcag tggggcaggt cagttcattc gctcctgact atgcgaaagc aacagtgtca 3000 gcatcccaca tcatcaggat cattgagaaa acccccgaga ttgacagcta cagcacgcaa 3060 ggcctaaagc cgaatatgtt ggaaggaaat gtgcaattta gtggagtcgt gttcaactat 3120 cccacccgac ccagcatccc agtgcttcag gggctgagcc ttgaggtgaa gaagggccag 3180 acgctggccc tggtgggcag cagtggctgc gggaagagca cagtggtcca gctgctcgag 3240 cgcttctacg accccatggc tggatcagtg tttctagatg gcaaagaaat aaagcaactg 3300 aatgtccagt ggctccgagc acagctgggc attgtgtccc aagagcccat tctctttgac 3360 tgcagcatcg cagagaacat tgcctacgga gacaacagcc gggtcgtgtc ttatgaggag 3420 attgtgaggg cagccaagga ggccaacatc caccagttca tcgactcgct acctgataaa 3480 tacaacacca gagtaggaga caaaggcact cagctgtcgg gtgggcagaa gcagcgcatc 3540 gccatcgcac gcgccctcgt cagacagcct cacattttac ttctggacga agcaacatca 3600 gctctggata cagaaagtga aaaggttgtc caggaagcgc tggacaaagc cagggaaggc 3660 cgcacctgca ttgtgatcgc tcaccgcctg tccaccatcc agaacgcgga cttgatcgtg 3720 gtgattcaga acggcaaggt caaggagcac ggcacccacc agcagctgct ggcgcagaag 3780 ggcatctact tctcaatggt cagtgtgcag gctggagcaa agcgctcatg aactgtgacc 3840 atgtaagatg ttaagtattt ttattgtttg tattcatata tggtgtttaa tccaagtcaa 3900 aaggaaaaca cttactaaaa tagccagtta tctattttct gccacagtgg aaagcattta 3960 gtttggttta gagtcttcag aggctttgta attaaaaaaa caaaaataga tacagcatca 4020 aatggagatt aatgctttaa aatgcactat aaaatttata aaagggttaa aagtgaatgt 4080 ttgataatat atacttttat ttatactttc tcatttgtaa ctataactga tttctgctta 4140 acaaattatg tatgtatcaa aaattactga aatgtttgta taaagtatat atagtgaaac 4200 tgagcattca tatttttgag ttattttgct caaatgcatg cgaaattata tattgtccca 4260 actgggatat tgtacataat tttagccttt aaaaaacagt ccattactgg ggggaggggg 4320 catcactcta tgggcaaagt gttactcaga catgggcacc tgagttcaga tccctaccac 4380 ctaagtaagc agacaaggtg tggtgttttt gtaatgccag tgctagaggc agaaaagaca 4440 gatcctgcag gctcagtggc tggccaaaca gcctagccaa catagcgcgt tccaggttca 4500 gtgagaaaac ttgtctcaaa aatcagaggg aaaagcaaat gaggtgtcag ccatgtgcac 4560 tcatgcaaat gccatacatg cagaagtatg tgcacacaca cgcacacatt aaccaacgac 4620 tagcaaggaa aatgaaggtg gataagaggg gtgggactgg gacaaaggag ggtacctgga 4680 tgaatatgac tgaaggacgt tatgtacaca tatgaaaacg tcgtactgaa actcactaca 4740 atgtatactt aatatattgc taataaaata tttttaaaag aaaaaaat 4788 8 1276 PRT Mus musculus 8 Met Glu Leu Glu Glu Asp Leu Lys Gly Arg Ala Asp Lys Asn Phe Ser 1 5 10 15 Lys Met Gly Lys Lys Ser Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Pro Ala 20 25 30 Val Ser Val Leu Thr Met Phe Arg Tyr Ala Gly Trp Leu Asp Arg Leu 35 40 45 Tyr Met Leu Val Gly Thr Leu Ala Ala Ile Ile His Gly Val Ala Leu 50 55 60 Pro Leu Met Met Leu Ile Phe Gly Asp Met Thr Asp Ser Phe Ala Ser 65 70 75 80 Val Gly Asn Val Ser Lys Asn Ser Thr Asn Met Ser Glu Ala Asp Lys 85 90 95 Arg Ala Met Phe Ala Lys Leu Glu Glu Glu Met Thr Thr Tyr Ala Tyr 100 105 110 Tyr Tyr Thr Gly Ile Gly Ala Gly Val Leu Ile Val Ala Tyr Ile Gln 115 120 125 Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg Gln Ile His Lys Ile Arg 130 135 140 Gln Lys Phe Phe His Ala Ile Met Asn Gln Glu Ile Gly Trp Phe Asp 145 150 155 160 Val His Asp Val Gly Glu Leu Asn Thr Arg Leu Thr Asp Asp Val Ser 165 170 175 Lys Ile Asn Glu Gly Ile Gly Asp Lys Ile Gly Met Phe Phe Gln Ala 180 185 190 Met Ala Thr Phe Phe Gly Gly Phe Ile Ile Gly Phe Thr Arg Gly Trp 195 200 205 Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile Leu Ala Ile Ser Pro Val Leu Gly Leu Ser 210 215 220 Ala Gly Ile Trp Ala Lys Ile Leu Ser Ser Phe Thr Asp Lys Glu Leu 225 230 235 240 His Ala Tyr Ala Lys Ala Gly Ala Val Ala Glu Glu Val Leu Ala Ala 245 250 255 Ile Arg Thr Val Ile Ala Phe Gly Gly Gln Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Arg 260 265 270 Tyr Asn Asn Asn Leu Glu Glu Ala Lys Arg Leu Gly Ile Lys Lys Ala 275 280 285 Ile Thr Ala Asn Ile Ser Met Gly Ala Ala Phe Leu Leu Ile Tyr Ala 290 295 300 Ser Tyr Ala Leu Ala Phe Trp Tyr Gly Thr Ser Leu Val Ile Ser Lys 305 310 315 320 Glu Tyr Ser Ile Gly Gln Val Leu Thr Val Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile 325 330 335 Gly Ala Phe Ser Val Gly Gln Ala Ser Pro Asn Ile Glu Ala Phe Ala 340 345 350 Asn Ala Arg Gly Ala Ala Tyr Glu Val Phe Lys Ile Ile Asp Asn Lys 355 360 365 Pro Ser Ile Asp Ser Phe Ser Lys Ser Gly His Lys Pro Asp Asn Ile 370 375 380 Gln Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe Lys Asn Ile His Phe Ser Tyr Pro Ser Arg 385 390 395 400 Lys Glu Val Gln Ile Leu Lys Gly Leu Asn Leu Lys Val Lys Ser Gly 405 410 415 Gln Thr Val Ala Leu Val Gly Asn Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Thr 420 425 430 Val Gln Leu Met Gln Arg Leu Tyr Asp Pro Leu Asp Gly Met Val Ser 435 440 445 Ile Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile Arg Thr Ile Asn Val Arg Tyr Leu Arg Glu 450 455 460 Ile Ile Gly Val Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Val Leu Phe Ala Thr Thr Ile 465 470 475 480 Ala Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr Gly Arg Glu Asp Val Thr Met Asp Glu Ile 485 490 495 Glu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp Phe Ile Met Lys Leu 500 505 510 Pro His Gln Phe Asp Thr Leu Val Gly Glu Arg Gly Ala His Val Ser 515 520 525 Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Asn 530 535 540 Pro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu 545 550 555 560 Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln Ala Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg 565 570 575 Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr Val Arg Asn Ala Asp 580 585 590 Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp Gly Gly Val Ile Val Glu Gln Gly Asn His 595 600 605 Asp Glu Leu Met Arg Glu Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Lys Leu Val Met Thr 610 615 620 Gln Thr Ala Gly Asn Glu Ile Glu Leu Gly Asn Glu Ala Cys Lys Ser 625 630 635 640 Lys Asp Glu Ile Asp Asn Leu Asp Met Ser Ser Lys Asp Ser Gly Ser 645 650 655 Ser Leu Ile Arg Arg Arg Ser Thr Arg Lys Ser Ile Cys Gly Pro His 660 665 670 Asp Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu Ser Thr Lys Glu Ala Leu Asp Glu Asp Val 675 680 685 Pro Pro Ala Ser Phe Trp Arg Ile Leu Lys Leu Asn Ser Thr Glu Trp 690 695 700 Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly Ile Phe Cys Ala Ile Ile Asn Gly Gly Leu 705 710 715 720 Gln Pro Ala Phe Ser Val Ile Phe Ser Lys Val Val Gly Val Phe Thr 725 730 735 Asn Gly Gly Pro Pro Glu Thr Gln Arg Gln Asn Ser Asn Leu Phe Ser 740 745 750 Leu Leu Phe Leu Ile Leu Gly Ile Ile Ser Phe Ile Thr Phe Phe Leu 755 760 765 Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly Glu Ile Leu Thr Lys Arg Leu 770 775 780 Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Lys Ser Met Leu Arg Gln Asp Val Ser Trp Phe 785 790 795 800 Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala Leu Thr Thr Arg Leu Ala Asn 805 810 815 Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys Gly Ala Thr Gly Ser Arg Leu Ala Val Ile 820 825 830 Phe Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr Gly Ile Ile Ile Ser Leu Ile 835 840 845 Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu Ala Ile Val Pro Ile Ile 850 855 860 Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val Glu Met Lys Met Leu Ser Gly Gln Ala Leu 865 870 875 880 Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ser Gly Lys Ile Ala Thr Glu Ala 885 890 895 Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr Val Val Ser Leu Thr Arg Glu Gln Lys Phe 900 905 910 Glu Thr Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu Gln Ile Pro Tyr Arg Asn Ala Met 915 920 925 Lys Lys Ala His Val Phe Gly Ile Thr Phe Ser Phe Thr Gln Ala Met 930 935 940 Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala Ala Cys Phe Arg Phe Gly Ala Tyr Leu Val 945 950 955 960 Thr Gln Gln Leu Met Thr Phe Glu Asn Val Leu Leu Val Phe Ser Ala 965 970 975 Ile Val Phe Gly Ala Met Ala Val Gly Gln Val Ser Ser Phe Ala Pro 980 985 990 Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Thr Val Ser Ala Ser His Ile Ile Arg Ile Ile 995 1000 1005 Glu Lys Thr Pro Glu Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Thr Gln Gly Leu Lys 1010 1015 1020 Pro Asn Met Leu Glu Gly Asn Val Gln Phe Ser Gly Val Val Phe 1025 1030 1035 Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Ser Ile Pro Val Leu Gln Gly Leu Ser 1040 1045 1050 Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu Ala Leu Val Gly Ser Ser 1055 1060 1065 Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu Leu Glu Arg Phe Tyr 1070 1075 1080 Asp Pro Met Ala Gly Ser Val Phe Leu Asp Gly Lys Glu Ile Lys 1085 1090 1095 Gln Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala Gln Leu Gly Ile Val Ser 1100 1105 1110 Gln Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Ala 1115 1120 1125 Tyr Gly Asp Asn Ser Arg Val Val Ser Tyr Glu Glu Ile Val Arg 1130 1135 1140 Ala Ala Lys Glu Ala Asn Ile His Gln Phe Ile Asp Ser Leu Pro 1145 1150 1155 Asp Lys Tyr Asn Thr Arg Val Gly Asp Lys Gly Thr Gln Leu Ser 1160 1165 1170 Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg 1175 1180 1185 Gln Pro His Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp 1190 1195 1200 Thr Glu Ser Glu Lys Val Val Gln Glu Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg 1205 1210 1215 Glu Gly Arg Thr Cys Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr Ile 1220 1225 1230 Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu Ile Val Val Ile Gln Asn Gly Lys Val Lys 1235 1240 1245 Glu His Gly Thr His Gln Gln Leu Leu Ala Gln Lys Gly Ile Tyr 1250 1255 1260 Phe Ser Met Val Ser Val Gln Ala Gly Ala Lys Arg Ser 1265 1270 1275 9 2719 DNA Homo sapiens 9 tttaggaacg caccgtgcac atgcttggtg gtcttgttaa gtggaaactg ctgctttaga 60 gtttgtttgg aaggtccggg tgactcatcc caacatttac atccttaatt gttaaagcgc 120 tgcctccgag cgcacgcatc ctgagatcct gagcctttgg ttaagaccga gctctattaa 180 gctgaaaaga taaaaactct ccagatgtct tccagtaatg tcgaagtttt tatcccagtg 240 tcacaaggaa acaccaatgg cttccccgcg acagtttcca atgacctgaa ggcatttact 300 gaaggagctg tgttaagttt tcataacatc tgctatcgag taaaactgaa gagtggcttt 360 ctaccttgtc gaaaaccagt tgagaaagaa atattatcga atatcaatgg gatcatgaaa 420 cctggtctca acgccatcct gggacccaca ggtggaggca aatcttcgtt attagatgtc 480 ttagctgcaa ggaaagatcc aagtggatta tctggagatg ttctgataaa tggagcaccg 540 cgacctgcca atttcaaatg taattcaggt tacgtggtac aagatgatgt tgtgatgggc 600 actctgacgg tgagagaaaa cttacagttc tcagcagctc ttcggcttgc aacaactatg 660 acgaatcatg aaaaaaacga acggattaac agggtcattg aagagttagg tctggataaa 720 gtggcagact ccaaggttgg aactcagttt atccgtggtg tgtctggagg agaaagaaaa 780 aggactagta taggaatgga gcttatcact gatccttcca tcttgtcctt ggatgagcct 840 acaactggct tagactcaag cacagcaaat gctgtccttt tgctcctgaa aaggatgtct 900 aagcagggac gaacaatcat cttctccatt catcagcctc gatattccat cttcaagttg 960 tttgatagcc tcaccttatt ggcctcagga agacttatgt tccacgggcc tgctcaggag 1020 gccttgggat actttgaatc agctggttat cactgtgagg cctataataa ccctgcagac 1080 ttcttcttgg acatcattaa tggagattcc actgctgtgg cattaaacag agaagaagac 1140 tttaaagcca cagagatcat agagccttcc aagcaggata agccactcat agaaaaatta 1200 gcggagattt atgtcaactc ctccttctac aaagagacaa aagctgaatt acatcaactt 1260 tccgggggtg agaagaagaa gaagatcaca gtcttcaagg agatcagcta caccacctcc 1320 ttctgtcatc aactcagatg ggtttccaag cgttcattca aaaacttgct gggtaatccc 1380 caggcctcta tagctcagat cattgtcaca gtcgtactgg gactggttat aggtgccatt 1440 tactttgggc taaaaaatga ttctactgga atccagaaca gagctggggt tctcttcttc 1500 ctgacgacca accagtgttt cagcagtgtt tcagccgtgg aactctttgt ggtagagaag 1560 aagctcttca tacatgaata catcagcgga tactacagag tgtcatctta tttccttgga 1620 aaactgttat ctgatttatt acccatgagg atgttaccaa gtattatatt tacctgtata 1680 gtgtacttca tgttaggatt gaagccaaag gcagatgcct tcttcgttat gatgtttacc 1740 cttatgatgg tggcttattc agccagttcc atggcactgg ccatagcagc aggtcagagt 1800 gtggtttctg tagcaacact tctcatgacc atctgttttg tgtttatgat gattttttca 1860 ggtctgttgg tcaatctcac aaccattgca tcttggctgt catggcttca gtacttcagc 1920 attccacgat atggatttac ggctttgcag cataatgaat ttttgggaca aaacttctgc 1980 ccaggactca atgcaacagg aaacaatcct tgtaactatg caacatgtac tggcgaagaa 2040 tatttggtaa agcagggcat cgatctctca ccctggggct tgtggaagaa tcacgtggcc 2100 ttggcttgta tgattgttat tttcctcaca attgcctacc tgaaattgtt atttcttaaa 2160 aaatattctt aaatttcccc ttaattcagt atgatttatc ctcacataaa aaagaagcac 2220 tttgattgaa gtattcaatc aagttttttt gttgttttct gttcccttgc catcacactg 2280 ttgcacagca gcaattgttt taaagagata catttttaga aatcacaaca aactgaatta 2340 aacatgaaag aacccaagac atcatgtatc gcatattagt taatctcctc agacagtaac 2400 catggggaag aaatctggtc taatttatta atctaaaaaa ggagaattga attctggaaa 2460 ctcctgacaa gttattactg tctctggcat ttgtttcctc atctttaaaa tgaataggta 2520 ggttagtagc ccttcagtct taatacttta tgatgctatg gtttgccatt atttaatata 2580 tgacaaatgt attaatgcta tactggaaat gtaaaattga aaatatgttg gaaaaaagat 2640 tctgtcttat agggtaaaaa aagccaccgg tgatagaaaa aaaatctttt tgataagcac 2700 attaaagtta atagaactt 2719 10 655 PRT Homo sapien 10 Met Ser Ser Ser Asn Val Glu Val Phe Ile Pro Val Ser Gln Gly Asn 1 5 10 15 Thr Asn Gly Phe Pro Ala Thr Val Ser Asn Asp Leu Lys Ala Phe Thr 20 25 30 Glu Gly Ala Val Leu Ser Phe His Asn Ile Cys Tyr Arg Val Lys Leu 35 40 45 Lys Ser Gly Phe Leu Pro Cys Arg Lys Pro Val Glu Lys Glu Ile Leu 50 55 60 Ser Asn Ile Asn Gly Ile Met Lys Pro Gly Leu Asn Ala Ile Leu Gly 65 70 75 80 Pro Thr Gly Gly Gly Lys Ser Ser Leu Leu Asp Val Leu Ala Ala Arg 85 90 95 Lys Asp Pro Ser Gly Leu Ser Gly Asp Val Leu Ile Asn Gly Ala Pro 100 105 110 Arg Pro Ala Asn Phe Lys Cys Asn Ser Gly Tyr Val Val Gln Asp Asp 115 120 125 Val Val Met Gly Thr Leu Thr Val Arg Glu Asn Leu Gln Phe Ser Ala 130 135 140 Ala Leu Arg Leu Ala Thr Thr Met Thr Asn His Glu Lys Asn Glu Arg 145 150 155 160 Ile Asn Arg Val Ile Glu Glu Leu Gly Leu Asp Lys Val Ala Asp Ser 165 170 175 Lys Val Gly Thr Gln Phe Ile Arg Gly Val Ser Gly Gly Glu Arg Lys 180 185 190 Arg Thr Ser Ile Gly Met Glu Leu Ile Thr Asp Pro Ser Ile Leu Ser 195 200 205 Leu Asp Glu Pro Thr Thr Gly Leu Asp Ser Ser Thr Ala Asn Ala Val 210 215 220 Leu Leu Leu Leu Lys Arg Met Ser Lys Gln Gly Arg Thr Ile Ile Phe 225 230 235 240 Ser Ile His Gln Pro Arg Tyr Ser Ile Phe Lys Leu Phe Asp Ser Leu 245 250 255 Thr Leu Leu Ala Ser Gly Arg Leu Met Phe His Gly Pro Ala Gln Glu 260 265 270 Ala Leu Gly Tyr Phe Glu Ser Ala Gly Tyr His Cys Glu Ala Tyr Asn 275 280 285 Asn Pro Ala Asp Phe Phe Leu Asp Ile Ile Asn Gly Asp Ser Thr Ala 290 295 300 Val Ala Leu Asn Arg Glu Glu Asp Phe Lys Ala Thr Glu Ile Ile Glu 305 310 315 320 Pro Ser Lys Gln Asp Lys Pro Leu Ile Glu Lys Leu Ala Glu Ile Tyr 325 330 335 Val Asn Ser Ser Phe Tyr Lys Glu Thr Lys Ala Glu Leu His Gln Leu 340 345 350 Ser Gly Gly Glu Lys Lys Lys Lys Ile Thr Val Phe Lys Glu Ile Ser 355 360 365 Tyr Thr Thr Ser Phe Cys His Gln Leu Arg Trp Val Ser Lys Arg Ser 370 375 380 Phe Lys Asn Leu Leu Gly Asn Pro Gln Ala Ser Ile Ala Gln Ile Ile 385 390 395 400 Val Thr Val Val Leu Gly Leu Val Ile Gly Ala Ile Tyr Phe Gly Leu 405 410 415 Lys Asn Asp Ser Thr Gly Ile Gln Asn Arg Ala Gly Val Leu Phe Phe 420 425 430 Leu Thr Thr Asn Gln Cys Phe Ser Ser Val Ser Ala Val Glu Leu Phe 435 440 445 Val Val Glu Lys Lys Leu Phe Ile His Glu Tyr Ile Ser Gly Tyr Tyr 450 455 460 Arg Val Ser Ser Tyr Phe Leu Gly Lys Leu Leu Ser Asp Leu Leu Pro 465 470 475 480 Met Arg Met Leu Pro Ser Ile Ile Phe Thr Cys Ile Val Tyr Phe Met 485 490 495 Leu Gly Leu Lys Pro Lys Ala Asp Ala Phe Phe Val Met Met Phe Thr 500 505 510 Leu Met Met Val Ala Tyr Ser Ala Ser Ser Met Ala Leu Ala Ile Ala 515 520 525 Ala Gly Gln Ser Val Val Ser Val Ala Thr Leu Leu Met Thr Ile Cys 530 535 540 Phe Val Phe Met Met Ile Phe Ser Gly Leu Leu Val Asn Leu Thr Thr 545 550 555 560 Ile Ala Ser Trp Leu Ser Trp Leu Gln Tyr Phe Ser Ile Pro Arg Tyr 565 570 575 Gly Phe Thr Ala Leu Gln His Asn Glu Phe Leu Gly Gln Asn Phe Cys 580 585 590 Pro Gly Leu Asn Ala Thr Gly Asn Asn Pro Cys Asn Tyr Ala Thr Cys 595 600 605 Thr Gly Glu Glu Tyr Leu Val Lys Gln Gly Ile Asp Leu Ser Pro Trp 610 615 620 Gly Leu Trp Lys Asn His Val Ala Leu Ala Cys Met Ile Val Ile Phe 625 630 635 640 Leu Thr Ile Ala Tyr Leu Lys Leu Leu Phe Leu Lys Lys Tyr Ser 645 650 655 11 502 DNA Mus musculus 11 ttcggcctag gggccgaggc ttatacggcc agttccatgg cactggccat agccacaggc 60 caaagtgtgg tgtctgtagc aacactactc atgacaatcg cttttgtatt tatgatgctc 120 ttttctggcc tcttggtgaa tctcagaacc attgggcctt ggctgtcctg gcttcagtac 180 tttagcattc ctcgatatgg cttcacagct ttgcagtata atgaattctt gggacaagag 240 ttttgtccag gattcaatgt aacggacaac agcacttgtg ttaacagcta tgcaatatgt 300 actggtaacg agtacttgat aaatcagggc atcgaactgt caccttgggg actgtggaag 360 aatcatgtgg ccctggcttg tatgattatt atcttcctca caattgccta cctgaaattg 420 ttgtttctta aaaagtattc ttaatttccc ctttaacgga ctattaattg tactccaatt 480 aaatatgggc actttgatta cc 502 12 147 PRT Mus musculus 12 Phe Gly Leu Gly Ala Glu Ala Tyr Thr Ala Ser Ser Met Ala Leu Ala 1 5 10 15 Ile Ala Thr Gly Gln Ser Val Val Ser Val Ala Thr Leu Leu Met Thr 20 25 30 Ile Ala Phe Val Phe Met Met Leu Phe Ser Gly Leu Leu Val Asn Leu 35 40 45 Arg Thr Ile Gly Pro Trp Leu Ser Trp Leu Gln Tyr Phe Ser Ile Pro 50 55 60 Arg Tyr Gly Phe Thr Ala Leu Gln Tyr Asn Glu Phe Leu Gly Gln Glu 65 70 75 80 Phe Cys Pro Gly Phe Asn Val Thr Asp Asn Ser Thr Cys Val Asn Ser 85 90 95 Tyr Ala Ile Cys Thr Gly Asn Glu Tyr Leu Ile Asn Gln Gly Ile Glu 100 105 110 Leu Ser Pro Trp Gly Leu Trp Lys Asn His Val Ala Leu Ala Cys Met 115 120 125 Ile Ile Ile Phe Leu Thr Ile Ala Tyr Leu Lys Leu Leu Phe Leu Lys 130 135 140 Lys Tyr Ser 145 13 2025 DNA Mus musculus 13 aaaggcataa atcctaaaga tgtcttccag taatgaccac gtgttagtac caatgtcgca 60 gagaaacaac aacggccttc ctaggatgaa ctccagagcc gttaggacgc tcgcagaagg 120 agatgtgttg agttttcatc acatcaccta tcgagtgaaa gtaaagagtg ggtttctagt 180 ccggaaaaca gttgagaaag aaatactatc agatatcaat gggatcatga aacctggcct 240 taatgctatt ctgggaccca caggcggagg caagtcttcg ttgctagatg tcttagcagc 300 aaggaaagat ccaaagggat tatctggaga tgttttgata aatggagcac ctcaacctgc 360 ccatttcaaa tgctgttcag gttatgtggt tcaagatgac gttgtgatgg gcaccctgac 420 agtgagagaa aacttacagt tctcagcagc tcttcgactt ccaacaacta tgaagaatca 480 tgaaaaaaat gaacggatta acacaatcat taaagagtta ggtctggaaa aagtagcaga 540 ttctaaggtc ggaactcagt ttatccgtgg catctctgga ggagaaagaa aaaggacaag 600 catagggatg gagctgatca ctgacccttc catcctcttc ctggatgagc ccacgactgg 660 tttggactca agcacagcga atgctgtcct tttgctcctg aaaaggatgt ctaaacaggg 720 tcgaacaatc atcttctcca ttcatcagcc tcggtattcc atctttaagt tgtttgacag 780 cctcacctta ctggcttccg ggaaactcgt gttccatggg ccagcacaga aggccttgga 840 gtactttgca tcagcaggtt accactgtga gccctacaac aaccctgcgg attttttcct 900 tgatgtcatc aatggagatt cttctgctgt gatgttaaat agagaggaac aagacaatga 960 agcaaacaag actgaagagc cttccaaggg agagaagcca gtaatagaaa atttatctga 1020 gttttatatc aactctgcca tctatggaga aacaaaagct gaattagatc aacttccagg 1080 agctcaggaa aagaaaggaa catcggcctt caaagagcca gtctatgtta cctctttctg 1140 tcaccagctc cgatggattg ccaggcgctc atttaaaaac ttgctcggga accctcaagc 1200 ttctgttgct cagttaattg ttacagtcat actggggctt attattggtg ccatttactt 1260 tgatctgaaa tatgatgccg ctggaatgca aaatagagct ggagttttgt ttttcctgac 1320 taccaaccag tgtttttcca gtgtgtcagc tgtggagctg ttcgtagtgg agaagaaact 1380 cttcatacat gagtacatca gtggatatta cagagtgtct tcttacttct ttggaaaggt 1440 gatgtctgat ttactcccca tgaggttctt gccaagtgtt atattcactt gtatattata 1500 cttcatgtta ggactgaaga agacggtgga tgcttttttc atcatgatgt ttacccttat 1560 aatggtggct tatacggcca gttccatggc actggccata gccacaggcc aaagtgtggt 1620 gtctgtagca acacttctca tgacaatcgc ttttgtattt atgatgctct tttctggcct 1680 cttggtgaat ctcagaacca ttgggccttg gctgtcctgg cttcagtact ttagcattcc 1740 tcgatatggc ttcacagctt tgcagtataa tgaattcttg ggacaagagt tttgtccagg 1800 attcaatgta acggacaaca gcacttgtgt taacagctat gcaatatgta ctggtaacga 1860 gtacttgata aatcagggca tcgaactgtc accttgggga ctgtggaaga atcatgtggc 1920 cctggcttgt atgattatta tcttcctcac aattgcctac ctgaaattgt tgtttcttaa 1980 aaagtattct taatttcccc tttaacggac tattaattgt actcc 2025 14 657 PRT Mus musculus 14 Met Ser Ser Ser Asn Asp His Val Leu Val Pro Met Ser Gln Arg Asn 1 5 10 15 Asn Asn Gly Leu Pro Arg Met Asn Ser Arg Ala Val Arg Thr Leu Ala 20 25 30 Glu Gly Asp Val Leu Ser Phe His His Ile Thr Tyr Arg Val Lys Val 35 40 45 Lys Ser Gly Phe Leu Val Arg Lys Thr Val Glu Lys Glu Ile Leu Ser 50 55 60 Asp Ile Asn Gly Ile Met Lys Pro Gly Leu Asn Ala Ile Leu Gly Pro 65 70 75 80 Thr Gly Gly Gly Lys Ser Ser Leu Leu Asp Val Leu Ala Ala Arg Lys 85 90 95 Asp Pro Lys Gly Leu Ser Gly Asp Val Leu Ile Asn Gly Ala Pro Gln 100 105 110 Pro Ala His Phe Lys Cys Cys Ser Gly Tyr Val Val Gln Asp Asp Val 115 120 125 Val Met Gly Thr Leu Thr Val Arg Glu Asn Leu Gln Phe Ser Ala Ala 130 135 140 Leu Arg Leu Pro Thr Thr Met Lys Asn His Glu Lys Asn Glu Arg Ile 145 150 155 160 Asn Thr Ile Ile Lys Glu Leu Gly Leu Glu Lys Val Ala Asp Ser Lys 165 170 175 Val Gly Thr Gln Phe Ile Arg Gly Ile Ser Gly Gly Glu Arg Lys Arg 180 185 190 Thr Ser Ile Gly Met Glu Leu Ile Thr Asp Pro Ser Ile Leu Phe Leu 195 200 205 Asp Glu Pro Thr Thr Gly Leu Asp Ser Ser Thr Ala Asn Ala Val Leu 210 215 220 Leu Leu Leu Lys Arg Met Ser Lys Gln Gly Arg Thr Ile Ile Phe Ser 225 230 235 240 Ile His Gln Pro Arg Tyr Ser Ile Phe Lys Leu Phe Asp Ser Leu Thr 245 250 255 Leu Leu Ala Ser Gly Lys Leu Val Phe His Gly Pro Ala Gln Lys Ala 260 265 270 Leu Glu Tyr Phe Ala Ser Ala Gly Tyr His Cys Glu Pro Tyr Asn Asn 275 280 285 Pro Ala Asp Phe Phe Leu Asp Val Ile Asn Gly Asp Ser Ser Ala Val 290 295 300 Met Leu Asn Arg Glu Glu Gln Asp Asn Glu Ala Asn Lys Thr Glu Glu 305 310 315 320 Pro Ser Lys Gly Glu Lys Pro Val Ile Glu Asn Leu Ser Glu Phe Tyr 325 330 335 Ile Asn Ser Ala Ile Tyr Gly Glu Thr Lys Ala Glu Leu Asp Gln Leu 340 345 350 Pro Gly Ala Gln Glu Lys Lys Gly Thr Ser Ala Phe Lys Glu Pro Val 355 360 365 Tyr Val Thr Ser Phe Cys His Gln Leu Arg Trp Ile Ala Arg Arg Ser 370 375 380 Phe Lys Asn Leu Leu Gly Asn Pro Gln Ala Ser Val Ala Gln Leu Ile 385 390 395 400 Val Thr Val Ile Leu Gly Leu Ile Ile Gly Ala Ile Tyr Phe Asp Leu 405 410 415 Lys Tyr Asp Ala Ala Gly Met Gln Asn Arg Ala Gly Val Leu Phe Phe 420 425 430 Leu Thr Thr Asn Gln Cys Phe Ser Ser Val Ser Ala Val Glu Leu Phe 435 440 445 Val Val Glu Lys Lys Leu Phe Ile His Glu Tyr Ile Ser Gly Tyr Tyr 450 455 460 Arg Val Ser Ser Tyr Phe Phe Gly Lys Val Met Ser Asp Leu Leu Pro 465 470 475 480 Met Arg Phe Leu Pro Ser Val Ile Phe Thr Cys Ile Leu Tyr Phe Met 485 490 495 Leu Gly Leu Lys Lys Thr Val Asp Ala Phe Phe Ile Met Met Phe Thr 500 505 510 Leu Ile Met Val Ala Tyr Thr Ala Ser Ser Met Ala Leu Ala Ile Ala 515 520 525 Thr Gly Gln Ser Val Val Ser Val Ala Thr Leu Leu Met Thr Ile Ala 530 535 540 Phe Val Phe Met Met Leu Phe Ser Gly Leu Leu Val Asn Leu Arg Thr 545 550 555 560 Ile Gly Pro Trp Leu Ser Trp Leu Gln Tyr Phe Ser Ile Pro Arg Tyr 565 570 575 Gly Phe Thr Ala Leu Gln Tyr Asn Glu Phe Leu Gly Gln Glu Phe Cys 580 585 590 Pro Gly Phe Asn Val Thr Asp Asn Ser Thr Cys Val Asn Ser Tyr Ala 595 600 605 Ile Cys Thr Gly Asn Glu Tyr Leu Ile Asn Gln Gly Ile Glu Leu Ser 610 615 620 Pro Trp Gly Leu Trp Lys Asn His Val Ala Leu Ala Cys Met Ile Ile 625 630 635 640 Ile Phe Leu Thr Ile Ala Tyr Leu Lys Leu Leu Phe Leu Lys Lys Tyr 645 650 655 Ser 15 20 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 15 ccacgtcagc cttggacaca 20 16 20 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 16 gccgcttggt gaggatctct 20 17 20 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 17 ccatagccac aggccaaagt 20 18 20 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 18 gggccacatg attcttccac 20 19 20 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 19 ggcctcagga agacttatgt 20 20 20 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 20 aaggaggtgg tgtagctgat 20 21 19 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 21 agctggagag atcctcacc 19 22 19 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 22 agccggagag atcctcacc 19 23 20 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 23 ctgtagctgt caatctcggg 20 24 20 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 24 ctgtagctgt caatctcagg 20 25 20 DNA Artificial Sequence primer 25 ctgtagctgt caatcagagg 20 26 2247 DNA Homo sapiens 26 accgtgcaca tgcttggtgg tcttgttaag tggaaactgc tgctttagag tttgtttgga 60 aggtccgggt gactcatccc aacatttaca tccttaattg ttaaagcgct gcctccgagc 120 gcacgcatcc tgagatcctg agcctttggt taagaccgag ctctattaag ctgaaaagat 180 aaaaactctc cagatgtctt ccagtaatgt cgaagttttt atcccagtgt cacaaggaaa 240 caccaatggc ttccccgcga cagcttccaa tgacctgaag gcatttactg aaggagctgt 300 gttaagtttt cataacatct gctatcgagt aaaactgaag agtggctttc taccttgtcg 360 aaaaccagtt gagaaagaaa tattatcgaa tatcaatggg atcatgaaac ctggtctcaa 420 cgccatcctg ggacccacag gtggaggcaa atcttcgtta ttagatgtct tagctgcaag 480 gaaagatcca agtggattat ctggagatgt tctgataaat ggagcaccgc gacctgccaa 540 tttcaaatgt aattcaggtt acgtggtaca agatgatgtt gtgatgggca ctctgacggt 600 gagagaaaac ttacagttct cagcagctct tcggcttgca acaactatga cgaatcatga 660 aaaaaacgaa cggattaaca gggtcattca agagttaggt ctggataaag tggcagactc 720 caaggttgga actcagttta tccgtggtgt gtctggagga gaaagaaaaa ggactagtat 780 aggaatggag cttatcactg atccttccat cttgttcttg gatgagccta caactggctt 840 agactcaagc acagcaaatg ctgtcctttt gctcctgaaa aggatgtcta agcagggacg 900 aacaatcatc ttctccattc atcagcctcg atattccatc ttcaagttgt ttgatagcct 960 caccttattg gcctcaggaa gacttatgtt ccacgggcct gctcaggagg ccttgggata 1020 ctttgaatca gctggttatc actgtgaggc ctataataac cctgcagact tcttcttgga 1080 catcattaat ggagattcca ctgctgtggc attaaacaga gaagaagact ttaaagccac 1140 agagatcata gagccttcca agcaggataa gccactcata gaaaaattag cggagattta 1200 tgtcaactcc tccttctaca aagagacaaa agctgaatta catcaacttt ccgggggtga 1260 gaagaagaag aagatcacag tcttcaagga gatcagctac accacctcct tctgtcatca 1320 actcagatgg gtttccaagc gttcattcaa aaacttgctg ggtaatcccc aggcctctat 1380 agctcagatc attgtcacag tcgtactggg actggttata ggtgccattt actttgggct 1440 aaaaaatgat tctactggaa tccagaacag agctggggtt ctcttcttcc tgacgaccaa 1500 ccagtgtttc agcagtgttt cagccgtgga actctttgtg gtagagaaga agctcttcat 1560 acatgaatac atcagcggat actacagagt gtcatcttat ttccttggaa aactgttatc 1620 tgatttatta cccatgagga tgttaccaag tattatattt acctgtatag tgtacttcat 1680 gttaggattg aaggcaaagg cagatgcctt cttcgttatg atgtttaccc ttatgatggt 1740 ggcttattca gccagttcca tggcactggc catagcagca ggtcagagtg tggtttctgt 1800 agcaacactt ctcatgacca tctgttttgt gtttatgatg attttttcag gtctgttggt 1860 caatctcaca accattgcat cttggctgtc atggcttcag tacttcagca ttccacgata 1920 tggatttacg gctttgcagc ataatgaatt tttgggacaa aacttctgcc caggactcaa 1980 tgcaacagga aacaatcctt gtaactatgc aacatgtact ggcgaagaat atttggtaaa 2040 gcagggcatc gatctctcac cctggggctt gtggaagaat cacgtggcct tggcttgtat 2100 gattgttatt ttcctcacaa ttgcctacct gaaattgtta tttcttaaaa aatattctta 2160 aatttcccct taattcagta tgatttatcc tcacataaaa aagaagcact ttgattgaag 2220 tattcaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa 2247 27 655 PRT Homo sapien 27 Met Ser Ser Ser Asn Val Glu Val Phe Ile Pro Val Ser Gln Gly Asn 1 5 10 15 Thr Asn Gly Phe Pro Ala Thr Ala Ser Asn Asp Leu Lys Ala Phe Thr 20 25 30 Glu Gly Ala Val Leu Ser Phe His Asn Ile Cys Tyr Arg Val Lys Leu 35 40 45 Lys Ser Gly Phe Leu Pro Cys Arg Lys Pro Val Glu Lys Glu Ile Leu 50 55 60 Ser Asn Ile Asn Gly Ile Met Lys Pro Gly Leu Asn Ala Ile Leu Gly 65 70 75 80 Pro Thr Gly Gly Gly Lys Ser Ser Leu Leu Asp Val Leu Ala Ala Arg 85 90 95 Lys Asp Pro Ser Gly Leu Ser Gly Asp Val Leu Ile Asn Gly Ala Pro 100 105 110 Arg Pro Ala Asn Phe Lys Cys Asn Ser Gly Tyr Val Val Gln Asp Asp 115 120 125 Val Val Met Gly Thr Leu Thr Val Arg Glu Asn Leu Gln Phe Ser Ala 130 135 140 Ala Leu Arg Leu Ala Thr Thr Met Thr Asn His Glu Lys Asn Glu Arg 145 150 155 160 Ile Asn Arg Val Ile Gln Glu Leu Gly Leu Asp Lys Val Ala Asp Ser 165 170 175 Lys Val Gly Thr Gln Phe Ile Arg Gly Val Ser Gly Gly Glu Arg Lys 180 185 190 Arg Thr Ser Ile Gly Met Glu Leu Ile Thr Asp Pro Ser Ile Leu Phe 195 200 205 Leu Asp Glu Pro Thr Thr Gly Leu Asp Ser Ser Thr Ala Asn Ala Val 210 215 220 Leu Leu Leu Leu Lys Arg Met Ser Lys Gln Gly Arg Thr Ile Ile Phe 225 230 235 240 Ser Ile His Gln Pro Arg Tyr Ser Ile Phe Lys Leu Phe Asp Ser Leu 245 250 255 Thr Leu Leu Ala Ser Gly Arg Leu Met Phe His Gly Pro Ala Gln Glu 260 265 270 Ala Leu Gly Tyr Phe Glu Ser Ala Gly Tyr His Cys Glu Ala Tyr Asn 275 280 285 Asn Pro Ala Asp Phe Phe Leu Asp Ile Ile Asn Gly Asp Ser Thr Ala 290 295 300 Val Ala Leu Asn Arg Glu Glu Asp Phe Lys Ala Thr Glu Ile Ile Glu 305 310 315 320 Pro Ser Lys Gln Asp Lys Pro Leu Ile Glu Lys Leu Ala Glu Ile Tyr 325 330 335 Val Asn Ser Ser Phe Tyr Lys Glu Thr Lys Ala Glu Leu His Gln Leu 340 345 350 Ser Gly Gly Glu Lys Lys Lys Lys Ile Thr Val Phe Lys Glu Ile Ser 355 360 365 Tyr Thr Thr Ser Phe Cys His Gln Leu Arg Trp Val Ser Lys Arg Ser 370 375 380 Phe Lys Asn Leu Leu Gly Asn Pro Gln Ala Ser Ile Ala Gln Ile Ile 385 390 395 400 Val Thr Val Val Leu Gly Leu Val Ile Gly Ala Ile Tyr Phe Gly Leu 405 410 415 Lys Asn Asp Ser Thr Gly Ile Gln Asn Arg Ala Gly Val Leu Phe Phe 420 425 430 Leu Thr Thr Asn Gln Cys Phe Ser Ser Val Ser Ala Val Glu Leu Phe 435 440 445 Val Val Glu Lys Lys Leu Phe Ile His Glu Tyr Ile Ser Gly Tyr Tyr 450 455 460 Arg Val Ser Ser Tyr Phe Leu Gly Lys Leu Leu Ser Asp Leu Leu Pro 465 470 475 480 Met Arg Met Leu Pro Ser Ile Ile Phe Thr Cys Ile Val Tyr Phe Met 485 490 495 Leu Gly Leu Lys Ala Lys Ala Asp Ala Phe Phe Val Met Met Phe Thr 500 505 510 Leu Met Met Val Ala Tyr Ser Ala Ser Ser Met Ala Leu Ala Ile Ala 515 520 525 Ala Gly Gln Ser Val Val Ser Val Ala Thr Leu Leu Met Thr Ile Cys 530 535 540 Phe Val Phe Met Met Ile Phe Ser Gly Leu Leu Val Asn Leu Thr Thr 545 550 555 560 Ile Ala Ser Trp Leu Ser Trp Leu Gln Tyr Phe Ser Ile Pro Arg Tyr 565 570 575 Gly Phe Thr Ala Leu Gln His Asn Glu Phe Leu Gly Gln Asn Phe Cys 580 585 590 Pro Gly Leu Asn Ala Thr Gly Asn Asn Pro Cys Asn Tyr Ala Thr Cys 595 600 605 Thr Gly Glu Glu Tyr Leu Val Lys Gln Gly Ile Asp Leu Ser Pro Trp 610 615 620 Gly Leu Trp Lys Asn His Val Ala Leu Ala Cys Met Ile Val Ile Phe 625 630 635 640 Leu Thr Ile Ala Tyr Leu Lys Leu Leu Phe Leu Lys Lys Tyr Ser 645 650 655 

What is claimed is:
 1. A method of identifying a stem cell comprising: (a) obtaining a cell sample which contains a stem cell; and (b) detecting the expression of BCRP by a cell in the cell sample; wherein a cell that expresses BCRP is identified as a stem cell.
 2. The method of claim 1 wherein said detecting is performed with an antibody that binds to BCRP; and wherein a stem cell is identified if it binds to said antibody.
 3. The method of claim 1 wherein said detecting is performed with a PCR probe for the nucleic acid that expresses BCRP.
 4. The method of claim 1 wherein said detecting is performed by measuring the pumping activity of the cell; wherein a stem cell is identified if it can remove Hoechst 33342 dye, but not Rhodamine 123 dye.
 5. The method of claim 1 further comprising: (c) detecting the expression of a cell marker associated with stem cells; wherein a cell that expresses BCRP and expresses the cell marker is identified as a stem cell.
 6. The method of claim 5 wherein said cell marker is selected from the group consisting of EM10, CD34, Thy-1, P-gp, Ac133, and c-kit.
 7. The method of claim 5 wherein said cell marker is CD34 and wherein the cell is also CD38-.
 8. The method of claim 1 further comprising (c) detecting the expression of a lineage specific marker; wherein a cell that expresses BCRP but does not express the lineage specific marker is identified as a stem cell.
 9. The method of claim 8 wherein said stem cell is a hematopoietic stem cell and the lineage specific marker is selected from the group consisting of CD2, CD3, CD4, CD8, CD14, CD15, CD16, CD19, CD20, CD33, CD38, CD56, CD71, HLA-DR, and glycophorin A.
 10. A method of isolating a cell that expresses BCRP comprising: (a) obtaining a cell sample which contains a cell that expresses BCRP; (b) detecting the expression of BCRP by a cell in the cell sample; and (c) isolating the cell that expresses BCRP.
 11. A method of isolating a cell that expresses BCRP comprising: (a) obtaining a cell sample which contains a cell that expresses BCRP; (b) contacting the cell sample with an antibody that binds to BCRP; and (c) isolating a cell from the cell sample that binds to said antibody; wherein the isolated cell is a cell that expresses BCRP.
 12. The method of claim 11, wherein said isolating is performed by flow cytometry.
 13. The method of claim 12, wherein said antibody has a fluorescent label and said isolating is performed by fluorescence-activated cell sorting.
 14. An isolated stem cell obtained by the method of claim
 11. 15. A cell population enriched for stem cells obtained by a method comprising: (a) obtaining a mixed population of cells which comprises both stem cells and cells that are not stem cells; and (b) separating the cells of the mixed population of cells into two individual groups of cells based on whether they do or do not express BCRP; wherein the group of cells that express BCRP is a cell population enriched for stem cells.
 16. An antibody that recognizes an extracellular portion of a BCRP; wherein said extracellular portion of the BCRP is in its natural conformation.
 17. The antibody of claim 16 wherein the BCRP is on the surface of a viable stem cell.
 18. A method for determining the amount of BCRP expressed in a human subject having or suspected of having leukemia comprising: (a) obtaining a leukemic cell from the subject; and (b) determining the amount of BCRP expressed in the leukemic cell.
 19. The method of claim 18, wherein the leukemia is acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).
 20. The method of claim 19 wherein the leukemic cell is a blast cell. 